.htaccess / geoIP: deny or forward per country

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Hi folks,
I hope you all had a fabulous christmas time by now!

I?ve run into a problem with my forums and the server. May be someone already has this one solved for his own forums - or knows a way, how to solve that.

My site is been overruned by requests from the asian ans russian region now for weeks and causes the server to run permanently on very high loads and it?s slowing down the server, that it?s a pain in the a*se to visit the site. I would like to forward those bots to a honeypot on one of my other servers, instead of blocking them. So they can be reported automaticly to spamhouse.org and others. At the same time - for human visitors - I?ld like to forward visitors to language/origin-matching specific sites on my website.

First: I can?t install a geoIP as apache module. I couldn?t figure out why - and I don?t want to do something nasty, that in the end is crashing the server - but I have a second best: I have PIWIK installed and with it a geoIP database as geoip_country.php file, running in a subdir. That works pretty fine for PIWIK.

But how could I make use of this geoip-file in connection with a .htaccess so, that the origin of visitors/bots are checked by the .htaccess/geoIP and become deflected to another http target? I?ve already heard this shouldn?t be a problem (more like a rumor while a chit-chat), but - to be honest - I have no clue what has to be done, to make this happen.

I?ld really appreciate, if someone could lend me a helping hand with that.
Anyone....?