Angie – GeoIP – Forbid wp-login.php and /wp-admin/ and allow whitelisting and blacklisting IP’s

by James McDonald | Aug 1, 2026 | IT Tips | 0 comments

GeoIP lookup

apt install mmdb-bin geoipupdate angie-module-geoip2

mmdblookup --ip 2603:1010:200::32c --file /var/lib/GeoIP/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb country iso_code

  "AU" <utf8_string>

mmdblookup --ip 52.147.37.48 --file /var/lib/GeoIP/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb country names en

  "Australia" <utf8_string>

To see the full nginx / angie config use the -T switch

angie -T | sudo tee yourconf
nginx -T | sudo tee yourconf

This is the full angie config from a test I've been doing. I want to be able to deny access to /wp-login.php and /wp-admin/* from everywhere but allow certain countries, deny any IP's or range of IP's or whitelist certain IP's

# configuration file /etc/angie/angie.conf:
user  angie;
worker_processes  auto;
worker_rlimit_nofile 65536;

error_log  /var/log/angie/error.log notice;
pid        /run/angie.pid;

# load modules
include modules.d/*.conf;

events {
    worker_connections  65536;
}


http {
	geo $ip_allowed {
		# 0 = false, 1 = true
		default        		0; # IP NOT allowed 0 = false
		#10.197.3.0/24  	1; # IP allowed true
		#10.197.3.113 		1;
	}

	geo $blacklisted {
		default 	0;
	        #10.197.3.0/24	1;
	}

    	geoip2 /var/lib/GeoIP/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb {
		auto_reload 1h;
		$geoip2_country_code source=$http_x_forwarded_for country iso_code;
        	$geoip2_country_name source=$http_x_forwarded_for country names en;
	}
   
	map $geoip2_country_code $country_allowed {
		default 	0;
		#"" 		1;
		AU 		1;
	}

	map "$ip_allowed:$country_allowed:$blacklisted" $denied {
		default 		1; # denied true
		"0:1:0"			0;
		"1:0:0"   		0; # IP allow $denied = false
		"1:1:0"   		0; # IP allowed, country allowed, not blacklisted = false
		"~^[0-1]:[0-1]:1$" 	1; # block anything that is blacklisted
	}

	# rate limiting
	limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=login_limit:10m rate=1r/s;
    	# Optional: Return 429 instead of default 503
    	limit_req_status 429;


    include       /etc/angie/mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    log_format extended '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                        '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" rt="$request_time" '
                        '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for" '
                        'h="$host" sn="$server_name" ru="$request_uri" u="$uri" '
                        'ucs="$upstream_cache_status" ua="$upstream_addr" us="$upstream_status" '
                        'uct="$upstream_connect_time" urt="$upstream_response_time"';

    access_log  /var/log/angie/access.log  main;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    keepalive_timeout  65;

    #gzip  on;

    include /etc/angie/http.d/*.conf;
}

#stream {
#    include /etc/angie/stream.d/*.conf;
#}

# configuration file /etc/angie/modules.d/echo.conf:
load_module modules/ngx_http_echo_module.so;


# configuration file /etc/angie/modules.d/geoip2.conf:
load_module modules/ngx_http_geoip2_module.so;


# configuration file /etc/angie/mime.types:

types {
    text/html                                        html htm shtml;
    text/css                                         css;
    text/xml                                         xml;
    image/gif                                        gif;
    image/jpeg                                       jpeg jpg;
    application/javascript                           js;
    application/atom+xml                             atom;
    application/rss+xml                              rss;

    text/mathml                                      mml;
    text/plain                                       txt;
    text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor                 jad;
    text/vnd.wap.wml                                 wml;
    text/x-component                                 htc;

    image/avif                                       avif;
    image/bmp                                        bmp;
    image/png                                        png;
    image/svg+xml                                    svg svgz;
    image/tiff                                       tif tiff;
    image/vnd.wap.wbmp                               wbmp;
    image/webp                                       webp;
    image/x-icon                                     ico;
    image/x-jng                                      jng;

    font/woff                                        woff;
    font/woff2                                       woff2;

    application/java-archive                         jar war ear;
    application/json                                 json;
    application/mac-binhex40                         hqx;
    application/msword                               doc;
    application/pdf                                  pdf;
    application/postscript                           ps eps ai;
    application/rtf                                  rtf;
    application/vnd.apple.mpegurl                    m3u8;
    application/vnd.debian.binary-package            deb udeb;
    application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml             kml;
    application/vnd.google-earth.kmz                 kmz;
    application/vnd.ms-excel                         xls;
    application/vnd.ms-fontobject                    eot;
    application/vnd.ms-powerpoint                    ppt;
    application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics      odg;
    application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation  odp;
    application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet   ods;
    application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text          odt;
    application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation
                                                     pptx;
    application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
                                                     xlsx;
    application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
                                                     docx;
    application/vnd.rar                              rar;
    application/vnd.wap.wmlc                         wmlc;
    application/wasm                                 wasm;
    application/x-7z-compressed                      7z;
    application/x-cocoa                              cco;
    application/x-java-archive-diff                  jardiff;
    application/x-java-jnlp-file                     jnlp;
    application/x-makeself                           run;
    application/x-perl                               pl pm;
    application/x-pilot                              prc pdb;
    application/x-redhat-package-manager             rpm;
    application/x-sea                                sea;
    application/x-shockwave-flash                    swf;
    application/x-stuffit                            sit;
    application/x-tcl                                tcl tk;
    application/x-x509-ca-cert                       der pem crt;
    application/x-xpinstall                          xpi;
    application/xhtml+xml                            xhtml;
    application/xspf+xml                             xspf;
    application/zip                                  zip;

    application/octet-stream                         bin exe dll;
    application/octet-stream                         dmg;
    application/octet-stream                         iso img;
    application/octet-stream                         msi msp msm;

    audio/midi                                       mid midi kar;
    audio/mpeg                                       mp3;
    audio/ogg                                        ogg;
    audio/x-m4a                                      m4a;
    audio/x-realaudio                                ra;

    video/3gpp                                       3gpp 3gp;
    video/mp2t                                       ts;
    video/mp4                                        mp4;
    video/mpeg                                       mpeg mpg;
    video/quicktime                                  mov;
    video/webm                                       webm;
    video/x-flv                                      flv;
    video/x-m4v                                      m4v;
    video/x-mng                                      mng;
    video/x-ms-asf                                   asx asf;
    video/x-ms-wmv                                   wmv;
    video/x-msvideo                                  avi;
}

# configuration file /etc/angie/http.d/web1.conf:
server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen 443 ssl default_server;
    server_name _;

    ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key;

    index index.php;

    #access_log  /var/log/angie/host.access.log  main;
    root /home/web1/web;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
    }

    #location /out/ {
    #    default_type text/html;
    #    echo "ip = $remote_addr";
        #    echo "code = $geoip2_country_code";
        #    echo "name = $geoip2_country_name";
    #}

    # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
    error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;

    location = /50x.html {
        root /usr/share/angie/html;
	internal;
    }

    error_page 403 /403.html;

    location = /403.html {
        # allow all;
        # root /var/www/html;
	root /usr/share/angie/html;

        internal;
    }

    location ~ /wp-admin/ {
	if ( $denied ) {
   		return 403;
	}
	fastcgi_index index.php;
        include toggen-php-fpm.conf;
    }

    location = /wp-login.php {
	if ( $denied ) {
		return 403;
	}
        limit_req zone=login_limit burst=5 nodelay;
        include toggen-php-fpm.conf;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include toggen-php-fpm.conf;
    }
    
    # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
    # concurs with angie's one
    #
    location ~ /\. {
        deny all;
    }
}

# configuration file /etc/angie/toggen-php-fpm.conf:
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/web1.sock;

# configuration file /etc/angie/fastcgi_params:
	

fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING       $query_string;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD     $upstream_request_method;
fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE       $content_type;
fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH     $content_length;

fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME        $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI        $request_uri;
fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_URI       $document_uri;
fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_ROOT      $document_root;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_PROTOCOL    $server_protocol;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_SCHEME     $scheme;
fastcgi_param  HTTPS              $https if_not_empty;
fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param  GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_SOFTWARE    Angie/$angie_version;

fastcgi_param  REMOTE_ADDR        $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param  REMOTE_PORT        $remote_port;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_ADDR        $server_addr;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_PORT        $server_port;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;

# PHP only, required if PHP was built with --enable-force-cgi-redirect
fastcgi_param  REDIRECT_STATUS    200;

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