Block Bots / Users based on IP, Country or User-Agent Module v1.1.8

Overview

Ban and block the access to your store for unwanted bots or users creating banishments by IP address, country code or user-agent.

What this module does for you

Improve your website security

We have designed this module to help you prevent unwanted users from entering your store, especially robots, spiders, crawlers and shopping bots that may cause harm to you store.

Ban by IP address

Write the IP address you want to block and click on "Confirm". After that, the person with this IP will not be able to enter the website and will get a white page with the following message "Forbidden - You don't have permission to access ... on this server". You can create an unlimited number of IP bans.

Note: you need to write the full IP address, this is NOT possible to use wildcard character such as * or %

Ban by country

Write the country code you want to block and click on "Confirm". After that, all the persons from this country will not be able to enter the website and will get a white page with the following message "Forbidden - You don't have permission to access ... on this server". You can create an unlimited number of country bans.

Note: you need to have mod_geoip enabled on your server to be able to block users by country (you can ask your hosting to enable it for you).

Ban by user-agent

Write the user-agent you want to block and click on "Confirm". After that, this user-agent will not be able to enter the website and will get a white page with the following message "Forbidden - You don't have permission to access ... on this server". You can create an unlimited number of user-agent bans.

Some examples of user-agents

Here are some examples of user-agents: yandexbot, baiduspider, sogou spider, bingbot, slurp, msnbot, twengabot, shopzilla, taringa, facebook...

You will easily find the name of the user-agents you are looking for at the following links:

http://user-agent-string.info/list-of-ua/bots

http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/useragentstring.php

IMPORTANT BEFORE BUY THE MODULE: Our module only works with the Apache’s module from GeoIp installed on your system, not with the GeoIp library from PHP. If you don’t have the Apache’s module needed our module will never work in your shop.

Features

Ban the IP addresses you want
Ban the users from the countries you want
Ban the user-agents you want
Display a white page with a error message
Unlimited number of banishments
All the banishments are made in the .htaccess file
Easy to create and delete banishments
Free and quality support provided within 90 days after the purchase of the module to help you in case of problems with the module

Recommendation

Compatible with multistore: Yes

The bans are made in the .htaccess and since this file is common to all shops of the multistore, the bans apply automatically to all shops of the multistore.

Override: No

What's New in Version 1.1.8(10/29/2021)

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Support and updates

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