Mod_GeoIP installation

Mod_GeoIP installation is easy. But in a cPanel server you need to follow some procedure for installing it.

Your cPanel server must have apache version 2.2.x installed.

Now proceed with the following steps to install it.

1) Download and install GeoIP database
# cd /usr/local/src/
# wget -c http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/c/GeoIP-1.4.6.tar.gz
# tar -xzf GeoIP-1.4.6.tar.gz
# cd GeoIP-1.4.6/
# ./configure
# make
# make install

2) Give apache user to read permission to that datbase file

# chown nobody.nobody /usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat
# echo '/usr/local/lib ' > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/geio.conf
# ldconfig

3) Download and install mod_geoip

# cd /usr/local/src/
# wget -c http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/mod_geoip2/mod_geoip2_1.2.5.tar.gz
# tar -xzf mod_geoip2_1.2.5.tar.gz
# cd mod_geoip2_1.2.5/
# /usr/local/apache/bin/apxs -lGeoIP -cia mod_geoip.c

4) Create a file called /usr/local/apache/conf/geoip.conf and add the following content

# cat >> /usr/local/apache/conf/geoip.conf << EOF
LoadModule geoip_module modules/mod_geoip.so

GeoIPEnable On
GeoIPDBFile /usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat MemoryCache

EOF

5) Add this file to apache included custom file list
echo 'Include "/usr/local/apache/conf/geoip.conf" ' >> /usr/local/apache/conf/includes/pre_main_global.conf

6) Rebuild httpd.conf and restart apache.

# /scripts/rebuildhttpdconf
# /scripts/restartsrv httpd