Are you looking for a way to block certain visitors from certain countries accessing your Joomla powered website? Country block admin, a module released by Joomla, is the answer for you. This module offers a great flexibility to administrators in terms of how and where to block visitors accessing their admin page of the website. The tool blocks visitors based on the countries they belong to and to determine country name it uses IP/country database. This module is available under license GPLv2 or later.
How we can use this Module?
To use country block for Joomla admin, you first need to install this plug-in. Once installed, configure it, enable it and then publish the extension to the status position.
What are its salient key features?
- In a comma separate list, you can mention all the countries you want to allow access for your admin page. If you do not specify any country here then it will be considered as granting access for all countries.
- There is one separate parameter wherein you can specify which countries you want to deny access to, provided you mention the redirect URLs for accepted and denied countries.
- Denied country list is at high priority compared to accepted country list.
- If a visitor to your website is granted access but redirect URL is not defined then module will display visitor’s IP, country and flag information.
- If a visitor is blocked for your website and redirect URL is not defined then module will display visitor’s IP, country and flag information.
- The module also supports block filters based on IP and IP regex.
- Administrator can also define IP exceptions. The module will permit access to all those IPs.
- If you want to only see the visitor’s country, you can hide the IP and flag provided the redirect URL is specified.
If you want to update your IP/Country database then two versions are available in the market; one for Joomla 1.5x and another for all newer versions after 1.5x. Joomla country block admin module can also be used effectively to protect your website from hackers of specific countries aferall, security of the website information is the most important thing in ecommerce Industry.
