Installing GeoIP / How to install GeoIP

GeoIP can be used in your server to locate and track visitors visiting your webpage. GeoIP provide valuable knowledge about your Internet visitors seamlessly and in real-time.GeoIP is a package used to determine the geographical location and other information like client’s region, city, longitude/latitude, connection speed, ISP, as well as company name.

Given below are the steps to install GeoIP:

[hari]$ sudo apt-get install geoip-bin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
geoip-bin
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 131 not upgraded.
Need to get 15.3 kB of archives.
After this operation, 119 kB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
geoip-bin
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe geoip-bin i386 1.4.7~beta6+dfsg-1 [15.3 kB]
Fetched 15.3 kB in 1s (11.3 kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package geoip-bin.
(Reading database ... 538222 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking geoip-bin (from .../geoip-bin_1.4.7~beta6+dfsg-1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up geoip-bin (1.4.7~beta6+dfsg-1) ...

When we install wordpress we get a sample wp-config file. Similarly we get a geoip sample configuration file at the following location.
/etc/GeoIP.conf.default
Rename it to make it your configuration file.

[hari]$ mv /etc/GeoIP.conf.default /etc/GeoIP.conf

Now open the file  /etc/GeoIP.conf using your favorite editor to enter the user_id and license information.
[hari]$ vim  /etc/GeoIP.conf
# If you purchase a subscription to the GeoIP database,
# then you will obtain a license key which you can
# use to automatically obtain updates.
# for more details, please go to
# http://www.maxmind.com/app/products

# see https://www.maxmind.com/app/license_key_login to obtain License Key,
# UserId, and available ProductIds

# Enter your license key here
LicenseKey

# Enter your User ID here
UserId

# Enter the Product ID(s) of the database(s) you would like to update
# By default 106 (MaxMind GeoIP Country) is listed below

You can also use GeoIP without purchasing license from the maxmind but it provides only limited support.

Sample Output

[hari]$ geoiplookup 8.8.4.4
GeoIP Country Edition: US, United States

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