mod_geoip allows you to look up a user's location from their IP Address. It comes in handy when you want to display flags, enable download server location and target specific users
First run following commands
cd /var/cpanel/easy/apache/custom_opt_mods
wget http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/pub/EasyApache/EasyApacheCustomModules/custom_opt_mod-mod_geoip.tar.gz
tar -xvf custom_opt_mod-mod_geoip.tar.gz
Run EasyApache via cPanel or via following command
/scripts/easyapache
mkdir /usr/share/GeoIP/
cd /usr/share/GeoIP/
wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCountry/GeoIP.dat.gz
wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
gunzip GeoIP.dat.gz
gunzip GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
rm -f *.gz
Thereafter in cPanel WHM go to
Apache Configurations > Pre VirtualHost Include
<IfModule mod_geoip.c>
GeoIPEnable On
GeoIPScanProxyHeaders On
GeoIPDBFile /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat MemoryCache
GeoIPDBFile /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCity.dat MemoryCache
</IfModule>
Finally run
service httpd restart
If everything works well, you'll get apache to run mod_geoip. You can test it by adding this php code on test.php
<?php
/*
Uses mod-geoip to query the
MaxMind GeoLite City
binary database and returns
geographic information based
on the client's IP address
*/
$country_code = apache_note("GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE");
$country_name = apache_note("GEOIP_COUNTRY_NAME");
$city_name = apache_note("GEOIP_CITY");
$region = apache_note("GEOIP_REGION");
$metro_code = apache_note("GEOIP_DMA_CODE");
$area_code = apache_note("GEOIP_AREA_CODE");
$latitude = apache_note("GEOIP_LATITUDE");
$longitude = apache_note("GEOIP_LONGITUDE");
$postal_code = apache_note("GEOIP_POSTAL_CODE");
echo 'Country code: '.$country_code.'<br>';
echo 'Country name: '.$country_name.'<br>';
echo 'City name: '.$city_name.'<br>';
echo 'Region: '.$region.'<br>';
echo 'Metro code: '.$metro_code.'<br>';
echo 'Area code: '.$area_code.'<br>';
echo 'Latitude: '.$latitude.'<br>';
echo 'Longitude: '.$longitude.'<br>';
echo 'Postal code: '.$postal_code.'<br>';
?>
