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The “-df” tells it to “deflate” and overwrite the existing file.

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Once the download is complete, extract the file with this command (please ensure that you are in the “/usr/share/geoip/” path): gzip -df Next download the Maxmind database with this command to download the file. On that note, let's get started by creating the a directory for the maxmind database via the Loadbalancer’s CLI: mkdir /usr/share/geoip/

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Maxmind normally update their database monthly, so it is a good idea to download their updates regularly. Maxmind provide a free IP lookup database. You will also require the Maxmind database.

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You can follow page 161 of our Admin guide on how to do so. Update: A newer article on this topic is available hereĪ prerequisite for this guide is that you would already have the WAF configured with “Rule Engine traffic blocking” enabled on the appliance. The Web Application Firewall is based on ModSecurity which is an open source WAF for Apache, IIS, and Nginx for protecting against a many variety of attacks and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring and logging. At which point, you might start thinking about restricting traffic from specific countries that would only waste bandwidth on your server. You get up one morning and decide to take a look at your web analytic reports, and find that Japan is where the second largest volume of traffic is coming from. Now lets imagine that the website you’re running is targeted for a geographically specific customer base such as the USA. If you’re lucky enough to run a website, then the whole world has access to it by default! Geoip.Accessibility is the magic word for todays blog. This assumes CentOS/RHEL and Apache Installing GeoIP Lite on CentOS/RHEL and Apache sudo mkdir /usr/share/GeoIPĪdd the following to the geoip.ini file extension=geoip.so Here are some instructions for installing GeoIP Lite database and having it available to PHP. In general, the database of geographic data is not something you would access directly, but use some kind of application to do lookups (against IP addresses).

If you are using something like Wordpress, there is at least one plugin ( GeoIP Detect) that does not require root.

Use an analytics package that uses GeoIP (installed as above), such as the open source Piwik.

Requires root and access to the command line.

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Install GeoIP as a PHP PECL extension (for Apache or NginX), and access it via PHP (there are other languages, this is just one of the more common.

There are (at least) three approaches to using GeoIP: If you're only concerned with the second file of the geoIP city data, the following SQL will create a table with the necessary columns: DROP TABLE IF EXISTS location If you don't need IP data, the World Cities Database may be more suitable: GeoLite Country contains only IP blocks and country names. GeoLite City contains two tables, IP block/City and City Locations (lat/lng). Remember to create indexes on the relevant columns. You will need to create the tables first.

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If you're using PHP MyAdmin MySQL panel, you can just download the CSV gz or zip and upload/import directly. You will then have direct access to the data and you can write the relevant queries to produce the results required by your app. If you don't have access to the server config, you can download the CSV versions and import this into a MySQL DB. This then gives you access to some handy PHP functions: This offers better performance, but you will need to alter your PHP configuration to install the GeoIP extension or Pecl package. If you have direct access to the server/command line, you can use the binary format. Thank you fro your time and any help in advanced. Lastly, where can I find help on using my new database, reading from it, echoing the users location and whatnot to the page? Could anyone give me insights in how I set up a database and upload these files to it? I do not understand what these mean and would like some help to determine which one I will need to download.Īlthough I'm able to on my 1and1 business account, I have not yet done anything to do with databases. Below is a list of ones you can download There are multiple versions you can download. What other one do I need or can the longitude/latitude be found via the above databases?.The databases are an obvious for which ones I need, apart from the one needed for the longitude/latitude. I need to be able to use the MaxMind GeoLite version to find the users Country, City and Longitude/Latitude.