GEOLOCATION: How to deny access by IP?

[emperor]

Help!
How to Deny access IP particular country?
Is it possible to set the mod_geoip in Plesk ?

 

[IgorG]

You can describe your business case and vote for this feature here https://plesk.uservoice.com/forums/...suggestions/4173744-enable-nginx-geoip-module

Also you can start using Fail2ban to avoid future acceess requests from unwanted IPs.

 

[emperor]

Thank you!

 

[trialotto]

@emperor,

There is the "Apache way of doing things" and the possibility to change the Nginx binary, as has been suggested by IgorG.

What is your preference?

If you like to follow the Nginx method, please let me know: I will start testing a custom compilation of Nginx, including geoip module.

Regards.....

 

[emperor]

i'm like to follow the Nginx method

 

[trialotto]

@emperor,

Please start a "conversation" (click on my name), so I can keep you up-to-date with respect of the development and testing of the custom Nginx binary.

Regards.....

 

[burnley]

Hate to dig up old threads, however this one is interesting. I've voted at https://plesk.uservoice.com/forums/...suggestions/4173744-enable-nginx-geoip-module and added a possible use case, quoting:

"It'd be a great addition to the sw-nginx build. Enforcing rate limits is a must have these days and using ngx_http_geoip_module should be a very effective way to slow down the botnets' brute force attacks against commonly abused locations, like Wordpress/Joomla/Drupal or Magento login pages. A basic example:

limit_req_zone $geoip_country_code zone=geoipcountrycode:10m rate=5r/m;

location ~* (\/wp-login\.php|\/administrator) {
limit_req zone=geoipcountrycode burst=10;
proxy_pass http://real.serv.er:7080;
[...]"