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Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition
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Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition

by Martin Bjerretoft Fjordvald, Nedelcu
February 2018
Beginner to intermediate
348 pages
9h 40m
English
Packt Publishing
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GeoIP

Although the name suggests some similarities with the previous one, this optional module provides accurate geographical information about your visitors by making use of the MaxMind (https://www.maxmind.com/en/home) GeoIP binary databases. You need to download the database files from the MaxMind website and place them in your Nginx directory.

This module is not included in the default Nginx build.

Then, all you have to do is specify the database path with either directive:

geoip_country country.dat; # country information db 
geoip_city city.dat; # city information db 
geoip_org geoiporg.dat; # ISP/organization db 

The first directive enables several variables: $geoip_country_code (two-letter country code), $geoip_country_code3 (three-letter ...

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ISBN: 9781788623551