# MaxMind-GeoIP Question

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/maxmind-geoip-question/229743>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [February 5, 2013, 2:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/maxmind-geoip-question/229743 "2013-02-05T14:46:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![AJ\_Weber](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/8c91f0/32.png) [@AJ\_Weber](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/AJ_Weber)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 2:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/maxmind-geoip-question/229743/1 "2013-02-05T14:46:10Z")

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I see older pages referencing the ability to use geoip\_org (I assume if  
you purchase MaxMind’s Organization DB), but the latest documentation  
that I looked at only specifies country/city directives.

Can anyone confirm whether the recent versions of Ngnix (like 1.3.9 and  
later) still allow the organization directives when the geoip module is  
compiled-in?

Thanks,  
AJ

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**Author:** ![AJ\_Weber](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/8c91f0/32.png) [@AJ\_Weber](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/AJ_Weber)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/maxmind-geoip-question/229743/2 "2013-02-05T14:50:16Z")

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On Feb 5, 2013, at 17:45 , AJ Weber wrote:

> I see older pages referencing the ability to use geoip\_org (I assume if you  
> purchase MaxMind’s Organization DB), but the latest documentation that I looked at  
> only specifies country/city directives.
> 
> Can anyone confirm whether the recent versions of Ngnix (like 1.3.9 and later)  
> still allow the organization directives when the geoip module is compiled-in?

> **[Module ngx\_http\_geoip\_module](http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_geoip_module.html#geoip_org)**
>
> The ngx\_http\_geoip\_module module (0.8.6+) creates variables with values depending on the client IP address, using the precompiled MaxMind databases. Since 1.31.7, the module supports databases in MaxMind DB (MMDB) format.

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**Author:** ![AJ\_Weber](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/8c91f0/32.png) [@AJ\_Weber](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/AJ_Weber)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 3:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/maxmind-geoip-question/229743/3 "2013-02-05T15:28:18Z")

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[http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx\_http\_geoip\_module.html#geoip\_org](http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_geoip_module.html#geoip_org)

OK, that’s great! I was looking here:  
[http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpGeoipModule](http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpGeoipModule)

Should I always assume that the [nginx documentation](http://nginx.org/en/docs)… URLs have the most  
up-to-date information?

Thx,  
AJ

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**Author:** ![AJ\_Weber](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/8c91f0/32.png) [@AJ\_Weber](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/AJ_Weber)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 6:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/maxmind-geoip-question/229743/4 "2013-02-05T18:26:00Z")

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On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 09:27:37AM -0500, AJ Weber wrote:

> [Module ngx\_http\_geoip\_module](http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_geoip_module.html#geoip_org)
> 
> OK, that’s great! I was looking here: [GitHub - nginxinc/nginx-wiki: ARCHIVED -- Source for the now archived NGINX Wiki section of https://www.nginx.com · GitHub](http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpGeoipModule)
> 
> Should I always assume that the [nginx documentation](http://nginx.org/en/docs)… URLs have the most  
> up-to-date information?

These are official docs. We _try_ to keep them up-to-date.