: Verifying that a user is from a certain country I'm helping a small non-profit with their website and we are going to have a login and membership system where we need to verify that a user

@Angela700

Here is a simple thought, when signing up have a field that that forces them to pick from one of the selected countries you speak of.

The reality is, anyone that is criminal minded will have no problem faking an Ip or most any other block you place in front of them. A VPN can easily bypass anything you put in place restricting IP's.

I have seen people use htaccess to block countries and/or only allow certain countries but that code can grow to 4megs+.

If you want to use that route and are uncomfortable generating the list, you can use an online generator like found here.
incredibill.me/htaccess-rewrite-wizard
Note: You can get country code lists from here. www.ip2location.com/blockvisitorsbycountry.aspx

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