Apache GeoIP

Apr 13, 2011 in UNIX AND LINUX
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Apache GeoIP is an apache module for detecting your visitor’s IP and block/redirect them to another website. Installing and configuring GeoIP is very easy in Ubuntu. Here are the steps :

1.Install the Apache GeoIP module and restart apache webserver

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sudo apt-get install libapache2-geoip
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

2.Create the .htaccess file and put in your webroot folder / website folder

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GeoIPEnable On

# Redirect one country
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^AU$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.canada.com$1 [L]

In the example above, GeoIP will check whether the visitor is from Australia or not. If the visitor is from Australia then apache will redirect the visitor to http://www.canada.com. Quite simple and straight forward. You can see another example in here http://www.maxmind.com/app/mod_geoip ( ignore the GeoIPDBFile because it will cause error ).