How Do I Allow Requests from Only IP Addresses in a Specified Geographical Region?
If you allow only IP addresses in a region to access the protected domain name, for example, only IP addresses from Ireland can access the protected domain name, take the following steps:
Geolocation access control rules have higher priority than built-in WAF rules. If you configure a geolocation access control rule to allow IP addresses from a certain location, WAF then forwards traffic from those IP addresses without performing basic web protection checks.
- Log in to the WAF console.
- Click
in the upper left corner and select a region or project. - (Optional) If you have enabled the enterprise project function, in the upper part of the navigation pane on the left, select your enterprise project from the Filter by enterprise project drop-down list. Then, WAF will display the related security data in the enterprise project on the page.
- In the navigation pane on the left, click Policies.
- Click the name of the target policy to go to the protection rule configuration page.
Before configuring protection rules, ensure that the target protection policy has been applied to a domain name. A protection policy can be applied to multiple protected domain names, but a protected domain name can have only one protection policy.
- In the upper left corner above the Geolocation Access Control list, click Add Rule.
- Add a geolocation access control rule: Select Ireland for Geolocation and select Allow for Protective Action. Figure 1 shows an example.
- In the upper left corner above the Precise Protection rule list, click Add Rule. Configure a precise protection rule to block all requests.
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