Thread: GeoIP doesn't seem to be working?

Or what if you use htaccess + geoip?
I guess because the geoip is run by the proxy hosting, the hosting should update it regularly.
No need to update the geoip database by ourselves.

Code:

RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^AF$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^AO$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^CN$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^KE$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^IQ$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^IR$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.google.com [NC,R,L]

How would you set that up if you were a web host?

Originally Posted by Killswitch

It's more than just GeoIP, he has other features like local places, so you can do a lot more.

It's just using GeoLiteCity then also, which we can use too. It clearly states on his webste that the service uses the maxmind databases for it's geolocation. But yeah, it is a nice servive he runs. I just prefer doing it myself is all

Originally Posted by xrvel

Or what if you use htaccess + geoip?
I guess because the geoip is run by the proxy hosting, the hosting should update it regularly.
No need to update the geoip database by ourselves.

Code:

RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^AF$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^AO$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^CN$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^KE$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^IQ$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^IR$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.google.com [NC,R,L]

You can actually make it easier than that, they allow multi-country on one line :

Code:

GeoIPEnable On
GeoIPDBFile /path/to/GeoIP.dat

# Redirect multiple countries to a single page
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^(AF|AO|CN|KE|IQ|IR)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.wherever.com$1 [L]

Originally Posted by Zash

How would you set that up if you were a web host?

Just install the maxmind apache module mod_geoip.

MaxMind - GeoIP Apache API