Just wanted to drop a line that at least the following options are retained after deactivating and unistalling the plugin (two have ‘yes’ as autoload value, one has ‘auto’):

• ip2location_country_blocker_backend_block_proxy_type
• ip2location_country_blocker_frontend_block_proxy_type
• ip2location_country_blocker_real_ip_header

Not that it’s a real problem, but I don’t think it’s intentional either ??

Some time ago, I installed the IP2Location Country Blocker plugin because the site was getting flooded with spam visits from countries in Eastern Europe, Africa, etc. in this site:

However, the client informed me that they cannot view the site, as the following message appears:

“Connection denied by IP2Location Country Blocker Please contact web administrator for assistance.”

I tried installing a caching plugin (WP Fastest Cache) since that should have resolved the issue, but the problem persists…

I cleared the browser cache, but the problem persists…

I would appreciate any help on this matter.

Thank you very much and best regards!

Hello, I got the plugin so that I no longer receive access for access outside of my business area. So far the plugin works very well. Unfortunately it bothers me that I get a notification about a blocking every half hour.

That’s why I would like to completely deactivate the email notification. Is this possible?

The emails always look like this:
Hi,
IP2Location Country Blocker has detected and blocked the visitor from accessing your admin page:

IP Address: 162.144.135.175
Total Occurrence in past 1 hour: 0
URL: https://www.winzerhaus-koeckeis.at/wp-login.php

Asked more out of curiosity, but happy for it to be seen as a suggestion:
Is there a specific reason that we can’t just enter an arbitrary email address to have the notifications to? Sure, not to spam a random address, but only admins should be there anyway and I’d hope this weren’t an issue.
For my test now, I manually change the option ip2location_country_blocker_email_notification to another email address. This is shown as if none is selected and saving the options removes my change – both expected, to be fair.

Hello

Discarding unwanted traffic shows to be a highly efficient method, to get rid off pests. In IPv4 there is port 9 for this purpose, in IPv6 the range 100::

Could you please add a 4th redirecting option, called “keep silent“? (and, of course, not sending back anything, really nothing). There is no worse thing, than getting no response at all from a target.

Regards, Mike

Hello,

It would be nice to have a log of all blocked and passed IP’s with request, user agent and so on. Sometimes we need to allow access from country that is blocked and finding the IP for that without full log is difficult. Or block access from whitelisted country.

Hope you can implement it. Thank you.

All access to our sites using the wordpress plugin IP2Locationblocker is denied.

An IP address from a blocked country (Chechia) which is on the Whitelist IP addresses list is being blocked by IPLocation. The problem started today, the user could previously access the site without a problem.

Using last version of plugin, it seems to block a bunch of ipv4 all right, but seems unable to stop a single ipv6, namely this one:

2024-06-24 20:19:27 – IP: 2a00:6d43:301:ff01:3d7a:508e:d160:fb7b, IP: 2a00:6d43:301:ff01:3d7a:508e:d160:fb7b, API key not set. (retrieved from cache)
2024-06-24 20:19:28 – IP: 2a00:6d43:301:ff01:3d7a:508e:d160:fb7b, IP: 2a00:6d43:301:ff01:3d7a:508e:d160:fb7b, API key not set. (retrieved from cache)

No cache is active, no entries in the debug.log. Am I missing something obvious? Thank you.

Hello, I found a large number of messages about this error in the error.log file:

[13-Jun-2024 08:55:23 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 7.25 to int loses precision in /home/username/public_html/site.com/wp-content/plugins/ip2location-country-blocker/ip2location-country-blocker.php on line 3736

i am getting continues error as below. like every few second

[29-May-2024 13:51:10 UTC] WordPress database error Table ‘xxxxxx_woocom.wp_ip2location_country_blocker_frontend_rate_limit_log’ doesn’t exist for query INSERT INTO wp_ip2location_country_blocker_frontend_rate_limit_log(ip_address, date_created) VALUES (“66.249.68.1”, “2024-05-29 13:51:10”) made by require(‘wp-blog-header.php’), require_once(‘wp-load.php’), require_once(‘wp-config.php’), require_once(‘wp-settings.php’), do_action(‘init’), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook->apply_filters, IP2LocationCountryBlocker->check_block

is this normal? i think this made my error log file huge.

Is there a way to customize the mail notification a bit? I’d really appreciate if it stated the country from which that specific access was blocked. I know I can see full stats in the statistics, but still.

Hi at IP2Location!
I wanted to unblock users from the USA but this country is not listed in your worldwidecountry-Chooser

In the front-end I am allowing 2 countries only (Liechtenstein and Switzerland), setting them as “except” ones. Then, i have set some whitelisted IP, among these my German hosting provider is found:

2a10:fc80:1::/48

In my logfile I get:

{“time”:”2024-04-10 11:09:55″,”client_ip”:”2a10:fc80:1:10:2::7″,”country”:”DE”,”is_proxy”:””,”proxy_type”:””,”lookup_by”:”BIN”,”cache”:false,”uri”:”https:\/\/mikewieland.ch\/”,”message”:”Country not in the list.”,”action”:”BLOCKED”}

{“time”:”2024-04-10 11:09:55″,”client_ip”:”2a10:fc80:1:10:2::7″,”country”:”DE”,”is_proxy”:””,”proxy_type”:””,”lookup_by”:”BIN”,”cache”:false,”uri”:”https:\/\/mikewieland.ch\/”,”message”:”Redirected to: \”https:\/\/mikewieland.ch\/err.html\”.”,”action”:”REDIRECTED”}

So, my hosting provider never gets thru to my real website. Instead he gets a small err.html, which is a minimalistic cyberwar remedy. This happens because whitelisting is done after country blocking. Instead, whitelisting should be done first.

No cache in place. Everything nicely up-to-date. Running WP 6.5.2

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Permission denied Error when entering IP2Location LITE download token

i have over 74k json files in my cache folder. can these be deleted?

I’d like to whitelist Google, apparently they have an “AS number” of 15169.

Is there any way to configure IP2 Location’s whitelist to allow an “AS number” of 15169?

Thanks

When trying to update the database (IP2LOCATION-LITE-DB1.IPV6.BIN) for the IP2Location Lookup Mode, it fails with the error that the database will not decompress.

Is it corrupted or is there a setting on my end that is causing this?

Thanks!

Installation and activation of this plugin via wordpress backend works fine.

When I try to activate it from the command line I get this error:

WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near ‘IF EXISTS wp_ip2location_country_blocker_rate_limit_log’ at line 1 for query DROP IF EXISTS wp_ip2location_country_blocker_rate_limit_log made by include(‘phar:///usr/local/bin/wp/php/boot-phar.php’), include(‘phar:///usr/local/bin/wp/vendor/wp-cli/wp-cli/php/wp-cli.php’), WP_CLI\bootstrap, WP_CLI\Bootstrap\LaunchRunner->process, WP_CLI\Runner->start, WP_CLI\Runner->run_command_and_exit, WP_CLI\Runner->run_command, WP_CLI\Dispatcher\Subcommand->invoke, call_user_func, WP_CLI\Dispatcher\CommandFactory::WP_CLI\Dispatcher{closure}, call_user_func, Plugin_Command->activate, activate_plugin, do_action(‘activate_ip2location-country-blocker/ip2location-country-blocker.php’), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook->apply_filters, IP2LocationCountryBlocker->set_defaults, IP2LocationCountryBlocker->create_table

The module still gets activated and seems to work too.

Hi.

I wanted to know if I can move the following data files to be outside of WordPress? Oviously, the plugin will need to be able to locate them but I am not sure how.

GeoIP.dat
GeoLite2-Country.mmdb
GeoIPCountryWhois.csv

The reason I ask is that I exclusively used All-In-One WP Migration plugin and I don’t need to include those files when I do an export.

Thank you.

The plugin uses an old code which causes the error below

[23-Oct-2023 10:41:37 UTC] PHP Deprecated: preg_match(): Passing null to parameter #2 ($subject) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/ip2location-country-blocker/ip2location-country-blocker.php on line 1980

I am in the USA and I have USA whitelisted as the only allowed country. This plugin was working fine for a couple of weeks, then all of the sudden I started receiving complaints that my USA clients were seeing the blocked screen. So I uninstalled the blocker and removed the 3 tables from the database, but my USA customers are still saying they see the IP2 blocker screen. How do I fix this?

At /wp-admin/admin.php?page=ip2location-country-blocker I’ve set

Block all countries?except?countries listed below.

to Australia & Bangladesh

However, Hotjar is recording website visitors from all countries.

Most of these visits are from Google Ad clicks to my WP landing pages which are from users in irrelevant countries that are burning through my Google Ads budget.

I am getting these warnings in my server logs:

PHP message: PHP Warning: Constant FS_METHOD already defined in?/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/wp-config.php

Apparently, after updating my website and its WordPress to 6.3.1, IPlocation Country Blocker 2.32.4 (latest?) fails giving internal site errors.

I really like and need such a plugin as this. I hope that a compatible version can be made and released quickly.

After saving a block of IP4 & IP6 addresses in the whitelist field, the page reloads and the whitelist field is empty.

We just updated the plugin to the latest version on one of our client sites and we’re getting the following error:

Site domain removed for privacy:

2023/09/14 08:45:44 [error] 2384931#2384931: *1269387 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Undefined constant "caches" in /var/www/{domain}htdocs/wp-content/plugins/ip2location-country-blocker/ip2location-country-blocker.php:3309 Stack trace:

This looks to be the bit of code causing the error:

 if (!is_file(IP2LOCATION_DIR . get_option('ip2location_country_blocker_database'))) {
                                        $this->write_debug_log('Database not found.', 'ERROR');

                                        return caches;
                                }

Please let me know if you need any more info to help resolve this.

Every time there is an update the plugin deactivates its self.

This has happened at least three times since I have installed it since June 2023.

Can you please help?

For some reason I was able to block a IPv4 but I am not even able to block a single IPv6 adress.

For example, I wanted to block:

2a02:3037:609:7f89:f52c:a8d2:77fe:4bba

here is a screenshot:

It does not have any effect. In the debug.log it says:

{"time":"2023-07-31 21:21:48","client_ip":"2a02:3037:609:7f89:f52c:a8d2:77fe:4bba","country":"DE","is_proxy":"NO","proxy_type":"-","lookup_by":"??","cache":true,"uri":"https:\/\/www.my-website.de (https://www.my-website.de/)\/?bundesland=bundesland_D%C3%A4nemark","message":"Access is allowed.","action":"ABORTED"}

• This topic was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by sabine99uber.

Backend list also blocks password-protected sites. Too bad. I set it like this: Block everything except the country I live in. Users from other countries now no longer have access to my site, which is provided with a password.