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#31586 Geoblock questions

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Latest post by on Wednesday, 28 August 2019 17:17 CDT

mondaiji
Hello! I have a few questions about the Admin Tools Geoblock feature:

1) Can you block a country, but whitelist IPs to allow some through?
2) Can you customize the error page, e.g. "This content is not available in your country?"
3) Can you customize the action, e.g. instead of block, redirect to another site for that country?
4) Can you geoblock just 1 menu item?

I think the answer to all of these questions is no, but wanted to confirm. For the "no" answers, are there any plans to add such features?

Thank you!

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
Hello,

you are right, the answer of those questions are all "no".
Geoblocking is not an exact science, because it's pretty easy to spoof your country or being subject to false positives. To be honest, we tried to remove it from Admin Tools some time ago, but all users started to complain so we put it back.
So no, there are no plans (as far as I know) about improving the Geo Block feature.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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