{"id":40,"date":"2012-03-02T01:48:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T01:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codebangers.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2012-03-18T20:43:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T20:43:53","slug":"40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codebangers.com\/40\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install Maxmind\u2019s GeoIP on Ubuntu\/Linux for PHP"},"content":{"rendered":"

provides a useful database and API for server side IP Geolocation. It is useful when you don\u2019t want your server to hang on external services each time fetching a location from an IP address is needed. This posts goes through the installation process of the database with a PHP extension on an Ubuntu platform. I\u2019m writing this for my own use. If it can be useful to you, yeepee.
\nSee it working\u00a0here<\/a>. I\u2019ll appreciate it if you can comment at the bottom of the page on how off from the result showed on the page is from your actual location.
\nOpen a terminal
\nDownload the C library in any location on your system (the latest as of today is\u00a0here<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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\nwget\u00a0http:\/\/geolite.maxmind.com\/download\/geoip\/api\/c\/GeoIP-1.4.6.tar.gz
\n[\/cc]
\nDecompress it:
\ntar\u00a0-xvzf\u00a0GeoIP-1.4.6.tar.gz<\/code>
\nand go into the folder to type the following:
\n[cc lang=”php” tab_size=”2″ lines=”40″]
\nsudo\u00a0.\/configure
\nsudo\u00a0make
\nsudo\u00a0make\u00a0check
\nsudo\u00a0make\u00a0install
\n[\/cc]<\/p>\n

Download the latest PHP extension (today its\u00a0here<\/a>)
\nDecompress it, go in the geoip folder and type
\n[cc lang=”php” tab_size=”2″ lines=”40″]
\nsudo\u00a0phpize
\nsudo\u00a0.\/configure
\nsudo\u00a0make
\nsudo\u00a0make\u00a0install
\n[\/cc]
\nAdd the following line in your php.ini file used by apache (in my case: \/etc\/php5\/apache2\/php.ini):
\n[cc lang=”php” tab_size=”2″ lines=”40″]
\nextension=geoip.so
\n[\/cc]
\nTo see if things have been working well until now, create a php test web page. We\u2019ll make it prettier later on.
\nTo complete the installation, unzip and set\u00a0GeoLiteCity<\/a>\u00a0database in the folder indicated by the test page (here \/usr\/local\/share\/GeoIP\/GeoIPCity.dat).
\nOnce the database is downloaded and placed in the correct location, use the following functions to get the latitude or longitude from the ip address:<\/p>\n

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\n$ip_location\u00a0=\u00a0geoip_record_by_name($_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’]);
\n$ip_location[‘latitude’];
\n$ip_location[‘longitude’];
\n[\/cc]
\nTo wrap things up, the following code puts the retrieved latitude and longitude on a neat little google map. Paste this in your test page:
\nThings should be working now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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