We want to implement it in such a way that users in some countries do not have access but search bots can
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qtwrk
(@qtwrk)
Hi,
please be more specific how did you block by country ? like rewrite rule or plugin or something ?
Do you have CDN service like QUIC cloud CDN or CloudFlare ?
is it your own server or shared hosting ?
Best regards,
Hello,
I use shared hosting. don’t have CDN.
I have written a plugin for this, but it does not work in cache mode.
This means that the page may show and cache the limit for users, and this will show for everyone
I found this link :
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cache-vary-for-different-group-of-country-with-cloudflare-geo-ip/
But how can I have a different cache for search engines bot?
I do not want search engines to be limited
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qtwrk
(@qtwrk)
Hi,
I have written a plugin for this
but how exactly did you do it ? like using $_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’] to check with online IP service or you just carry a MaxMind GeoIP DB file yourself or something ?
Best regards,
Well, my problem is that in guest mode, PHP does not work at all
Now I see that everything is done in htaccess.
Is there a way to say that I have a different cache for each country and a different cache for Google?
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qtwrk
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yes , but you need to have something that RewriteCond can use as “checkpoint” or “anchor” , like cookie , HTTP header , or environmental variable from webserver
that’s why I asked you how did you detect country
I use GeoIP for detect county.
Do you recommend a specific person for this job?
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qtwrk
(@qtwrk)
it’s not complicated thing
the hard part is how to get detection without involving PHP
you need to either have root access to server to set up GeoIP module for webserver , which is not possible I guess
other way is to have a CDN services in front , the CDN will send request header with country code you can use in rewrite rule
without one of these 2 things , this can not be done
Hi . Thank you for your guidance
I just had a question for you
The following code works well in my opinion:
GeoIPEnable On
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule. * – [E = Cache-Control: vary = other]
RewriteCond% {ENV: GEOIP_COUNTRY_NAME} “country” [NC]
RewriteRule. * – [E = Cache-Control: vary = country]
RewriteCond% {HTTP_USER_AGENT} Googlebot [NC]
RewriteRule. * – [E = Cache-Control: vary = SearchEngine]
But it only works when it is in the LiteSpeed code block. And the light speed code changes every time.
How do I put this code in htaccess?
