Forum: NGINX GeoIP module questions

Hey there nginxers-

  Is there a way to use a geoip database with nginx instead of
explicitely listing out all the IP ranges in the nginx.conf?
Something like this:

http://www.maxmind.com/app/country

  There is a modeul for apache and lighttpd for this type of stuff.
Any hints or help here? Or shoudl I just script something up to auto
generate the geoip config for nginx from one of these databases?

Thanks!

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http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpGeoModule

+ contrib/geo2nginx.pl to convert MaxMind CSV database.

ex:

geo $IP_GEO

{
  default  --;
         include /etc/nginx/geo_ip_country;
}

and proxy_set_header / fastcgi_param as usual


On 25.09.2007, at 23:52, Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:

> auto generate the geoip config for nginx from one of these databases?
>
>

Aleksej Besciokov
proforg@maloletka.ru
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Hello!

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:

> geoip config for nginx from one of these databases?
Hint 1:
You may use contrib/geo2nginx.pl script to convert maxmind's geoip
database into nginx config format.

Hint 2:
You may use "include" directive to include additional file into 
nginx.conf
(e.g. your converted geoip database).

Maxim Dounin

quick, dumb follow up question on this...

what is the syntax for running geo2nginx.pl?

tried ./geo2nginx.pl GeoIPCountryWhois.csv geo.conf

and

./geo2nginx.pl GeoIPCountryWhois.csv > geo.conf

to no avail.

the script looks quite simple, and i tried to RTFM i.e look at the 
script, but there's no usage example, and it doesn't look like there's 
any switches.

i tried hunting around for some similar examples, no luck.

im sure this is really simple, considering there isn't even a usage 
example, but im not very bright.. i mean not a coder or perl guy... 
could somebody help a brother  out on this one

thanks in advance

perl geo2nginx.pl < GeoIPCountryWhois.csv > geo.conf

awesome, thanks!