I’m running v.0.8.49 with GeoIP using both a city and a country
database. All of the GeoIP-generated parameters passed via FGCI seem to
work great, except that $geoip_postal_code comes through empty.
I’ve checked my fastcgi_param declarations several times (my symptoms
seem to point to a config issue since only one variable is impacted) but
everything looks in order. MaxMind states that they don’t have postal
codes for all IPs, but I’ve tried on a few different IPs in the same
general area here in the US with the same results–no postal code
reported. I don’t believe it’s an issue on the FCGI application side,
since I’m just doing a dump of the whole environment at this point.
Looking at the logfiles (debug level logging), the only thing out of
order is
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 09:00:26PM -0400, Dean wrote:
since I’m just doing a dump of the whole environment at this point.
Any suggestions as to how to debug the parameter issue?
Could you test the IPs here: http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_demo_ip
Does the page show postal codes for these IPs ?
I tried 5 IPs on the MaxMind site. One of them had a postal code
record–the rest were blank. When using that IP with nginx/GeoIP, the
postal code field was empty.
Using the MaxMind website, the city and lat/long of the IP are reported
differently from the same fields from the free MaxMind database used by
the GeoIP module. The MaxMind online lookup site states that the data
is from their commercial product, as opposed to the free one that I’m
using with nginx.
So…it seems that the databases are somewhat different, and there may
simply be no postal code data in the free database for the IPs that I’m
testing with.
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:05:52AM -0400, Dean wrote:
using with nginx.
So…it seems that the databases are somewhat different, and there may
simply be no postal code data in the free database for the IPs that I’m
testing with.
Could you tell the IP address which has a postal code on the MaxMind
site ?