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Can you advice how I can block all traffic coming from India to my website? I would like to dissallow access to this country to my website using admin tools. 

Thank you in advance

Prodromos

There is no longer any method in Admin Tools to block an IP by geographic location.  That was removed almost a year ago.  The full story behind the move can be found here.

Bypassing a GeoIP block is so trivial even a script kiddie can do it.  All you have to do is log in through an open proxy server in an allowed country.  

I understand this and went through the article. The customer still wants to block the country since he believes that will block ordinary users who are not technically minded. Is there any other solution to do this ? I.e block a range of IPs that belong to the specific country ?

You are going to go through a lot of trouble trying to figure out what IP ranges to block, for little or no increase in your site's security.  And when you're done, you have to monitor the IP ranges moving from one country to another now that all of the IPv4 addresses have been issued.  It is unreasonable to believe that you can do this without some sort of commercial service.  And you're going to slow your site down because the .htaccess file has to be read with every page load and the site has to figure out again and again if this IP is allowed.  It isn't bad for a few blocked IP addresses but for large numbers of IPs it becomes increasingly slow.

Nicholas killed the GeoIP feature years ago because it wasn't an effective security measure.  He had to reinstate it when he had crowds of people in his yard carrying pitchforks and torches and chanting "Death to Frankenstein!"

OK, I may be exaggerating just a little.  But it really doesn't work.  Let the system handle it.  For those that try something that triggers multiple security alerts, the system can automatically ban them temporarily.  If the same IP is blocked multiple times, it can be blocked permanently.