GeoIP not working?

[04nunhucks]

Hello, I can't seem to get GeoIP working properly for use with scripts on my server.

Basically, I've enabled the IP GeoLocation in LS, at server level, and provided the .dat for it. I've also enabled it at VHOST level, and added a GeoIPEnable On directive to the relevant htaccess.

However, scripts cannot use functions, such as -Call to undefined function- geoip_database_info().

PHPInfo shows that _SERVER[GEOIP_*] (4 entries) and it's accurate, but I can't seem to get scripts to use the functions. Any ideas?

[webizen]

You need to add geoip support (download & install pecl geoip, load geoip.so to lsphp5 ) to lsphp5.

[04nunhucks]

Hello webizen, how do I do this?

[webizen]

Here is the procedure:

1. download pecl geoip from http://pecl.php.net/package/geoip
   wget http://pecl.php.net/get/geoip-1.0.7.tgz
2. build geoip.so module
   tar zxf geoip-1.0.7.tgz
   cd geoip-1.0.7
   /usr/local/lsws/lsphp5/bin/phpize
   ./configure --with-php-config=/usr/local/lsws/lsphp5/bin/php-config
   make
   make install
   Note:
   a. you need to install geoip and geoip-devel rpm if not done so (yum install GeoIP-devel).
   b. /usr/local/lsws/lsphp5 is the prefix of running lsphp5.
3. add line "extension=geoip.so" to your lsphp5 php.ini file.
4. restart lsws to make it effective.

[04nunhucks]

Thanks webizen!

[04nunhucks]

Webizen, when I try to use some functions, as in the code below,

PHP Code:

<?php
if (geoip_db_avail(GEOIP_CITY_EDITION_REV1))
    print geoip_database_info(GEOIP_CITY_EDITION_REV1)."<br>";
$record = geoip_record_by_name("www.google.com");
if ($record) {
    print_r($record);
}
else {
    print "No location found!";
}
?>

It doesn't work - the function is just failing.

[DanEZPZ]

Originally Posted by webizen

Here is the procedure:

1. download pecl geoip from http://pecl.php.net/package/geoip
   wget http://pecl.php.net/get/geoip-1.0.7.tgz
2. build geoip.so module
   tar zxf geoip-1.0.7.tgz
   cd geoip-1.0.7
   /usr/local/lsws/lsphp5/bin/phpize
   ./configure --with-php-config=/usr/local/lsws/lsphp5/bin/php-config
   make
   make install
   Note:
   a. you need to install geoip and geoip-devel rpm if not done so (yum install GeoIP-devel).
   b. /usr/local/lsws/lsphp5 is the prefix of running lsphp5.
3. add line "extension=geoip.so" to your lsphp5 php.ini file.
4. restart lsws to make it effective.

I assume these instructions are outdated as the path /usr/local/lsws/lsphp5/bin no longer exists.

[webizen]

As the note(b) indicates, you need to check the prefix of your running lsphp5.

/usr/local/lsws/fcgi-bin/lsphp5 -i | grep prefix

[johncaradonnas]

Last Friday I have searched some solutions about magento extensions and I have found Geo-IP lock extension on some websites. But there was some errors on sites but I saw a demo on fmeextensions.com/magento-geo-ip-ultimate-lock.html where it was perfectly.