Gumi

I want to block my whole site for some countries, VPN or not.

I dunno what I did wrong but, for example, I want to block CN. When I used VPN set to CN (to test out if people living in CN can access or not), I can’t access the site ofc. But when I set VPN to US, I can’t access the site too. Does this mean it block even people from US when they use VPN? I maybe turned on the wrong things in the plugin.

Also I updated new ver of the plugin, it still causes error 500…I guess I will have to manually add IPs of bots that pull data from my site’s RSS feed for now…

Hi Rick,

Sorry for the slow reply, I rarely check here ??

For MonitorRSS, it worked after I added its IP. But the hosting service said that my site had error 500 again, only after I turned off the plugin did it stop saying that. This error affected those who used my site’s RSS feed outside of MonitorRSS. Ah yeah, the plugin didn’t slow down my site anymore.

About Custom Rules on the proxycheck.io dashboard, I just need to choose the option Block Specific Countries, type the countries and save the rule right?

And for plugin settings: Turn On, Block Whole Site, set Country Restrictions and added my friends’ IPs. When I turned on Block Whole Site, I tested and it also blocked those outside the countries I blacklisted. I dunno if I did something wrong with the settings.

My purpose: I want to block my whole site for specific countries, VPN or not.

• This reply was modified 3 months, 3 weeks ago by Gumi.

Hi Rick, sorry for the late reply.

When I installed and setup the plugin (only turned it on), it caused error 500 (the hosting service and MonitorRSS notified me about this), making MonitorRSS (an RSS feed bot) couldn’t fetch the data and stopped updating news into my Discord server. Also, it made my site loaded so slow, incredibly slow.

When I uninstalled the plugin, everything goes back to normal.

I have a question. If I set the country restriction, does that mean when people living that specific country use VPN, they can’t access the site? Or blocking when people use VPN set to that specific country?