How to restrict country to access your website with Netlify?

Why to restrict website access to specific/multiple countries or only allow one country to access your website read more

If you are using netlify to host your website then there is pretty good way to restrict access with certain conditions using redirect and rewrites read more

add _redirects file without any extension in dir that will serve your website

# _redirects
# serve blocked.html with beautiful url
/blocked  /blocked.html  200

# Redirect users from US to blocked page
/*  /blocked  301  Country=us

netlify will use the first matching route to redirect so make sure you prioritize the routes.
In above code block

1. Rule to serve static blocked.html with /blocked route
2. Rule to redirect all US the visitors to /blocked

blocked.html with appropriate message.