Mister Denial Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Hi everyone, so, I am tired of Pakistani website stealing my product photos and have decided to finally ban them from accessing the site. I know there is an integrated Geolocation module in1.6. - how reliable is it? Are there drawbacks to using it? And are the IP ranges updated at all? Or is there a better solution to blocking a whole country than this feature? Your experience and input is much appreciated! Cheers, Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacRoy Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Hi! I can warmly recommend you this module for your purpose! http://catalogo-onlinersi.net/en/home/456-prestaprotect-captcha-prestashop.html Works perfectly! Best regards MacRoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrestaHeroes USA Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Hi everyone, so, I am tired of Pakistani website stealing my product photos and have decided to finally ban them from accessing the site. I know there is an integrated Geolocation module in1.6. - how reliable is it? Are there drawbacks to using it? And are the IP ranges updated at all? Or is there a better solution to blocking a whole country than this feature? Your experience and input is much appreciated! Cheers, Dan Hi Dan, Native PrestaShop Geo Location is a great 'by country' way to manage your catalog. One thing that is important to remember about native is: if IP cannot be resolved native PS will disallow shopping. review of maxmind geolitecity.dat free file tells us at best the IP is 85% accurate, this can cause valid visitors from being able to shop. This is one of the features of my gtp module. We allow you to configure a default country for non-resolved IP. Most shops manage who can buy based on shipping and country select at registration. Once you have sound strategy for using native geo location (for unresolved IP's) then you can restrict using panel a country and/or IP's. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Denial Posted July 10, 2015 Author Share Posted July 10, 2015 Hi again, thanks for our little chat yesterday, I will definitely get the GTP module. One thing I did not quite get though is, how are the IP lists updated? I know that sometimes IP ranges are first associated with country A, but a year later or so, it can be country B. So how does that work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrestaHeroes USA Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 you would need to 'remember' to upload geolitecity.dat file on say a monthly schedule. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Denial Posted July 11, 2015 Author Share Posted July 11, 2015 you would need to 'remember' to upload geolitecity.dat file on say a monthly schedule. Is this file freely available somewhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrestaHeroes USA Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 see geolitecity.da http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/geolite/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Denial Posted July 14, 2015 Author Share Posted July 14, 2015 see geolitecity.da http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/geolite/ Thanks for the info! So it's the city file that needs to be uploaded, no the country file? To which folder do you need to FTP the file, or is there a feature in the BO (or in your module)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrestaHeroes USA Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Thanks for the info! So it's the city file that needs to be uploaded, no the country file? To which folder do you need to FTP the file, or is there a feature in the BO (or in your module)? Hi, you unzip and upload via ftp to tools/geoip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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