How to allow access only within country

Question

I found this web site to generate a .htaccess to block an access from certain country.

The problem with this is that I want to allow access only within Norway. If I use this service, the list will be very long since I have to list all the country IP addresses.

Is there any way to allow access within country, my case is Norway?

Answer 1

There are many geoip database vendors that offer solutions for the problem detailed instructions on the subject. Check out http://www.maxmind.com/app/mod%5Fgeoip for an apache module that comes with their database which would probably be a perfect fit for your problem.

Answer 2

Change all occurences of 'deny' to allow, and all occurrences of 'allow' to deny. Then move the 'deny from all' condition at the end to the beginning of the list.

eg.

<Limit GET HEAD POST>
order allow,deny
deny from 41.205.32.0/19
deny from .... 
allow from all
</LIMIT>

becomes

<Limit GET HEAD POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from 41.205.32.0/19
allow from ....
</LIMIT>

There's some good tutorials about .htaccess.