Debian Tutorials » geoip http://www.debiantutorials.com Copy/Paste tutorials for Debian based Linux distros Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:15:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Installing the GeoIP Apache module http://www.debiantutorials.com/installing-the-geoip-apache-module/ http://www.debiantutorials.com/installing-the-geoip-apache-module/#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:22:09 +0000 aip http://www.debiantutorials.net/?p=244 This module allows you to determine which country, region, city, postal code, area code the visitor is coming from.

1. Install the module

apt-get install libapache2-mod-geoip

2. Restart Apache

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

3. Create a new PHP file to test the module (pico /var/www/test.php or any file you can access on your server)

<?php
print_r($_SERVER);
?>

4. Navigate to the new file in a web browser (http://yourserver/test.php)

The response will be something like this:

Array
(
[GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE] => GB
[GEOIP_COUNTRY_NAME] => United Kingdom
...
)

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