Install mod_geoip on cPanel with EasyApache 4

Install mod_geoip on cPanel with EasyApache 4

mod_geoip Apache module helps you to find the location of the IP address of the website visitors. This post describes how to install mod_geoip in cPanel.

Install mod_geoip on cPanel with EasyApache 4

Please login to the server via SSH and run the following commands:

 
yum install GeoIP GeoIP-devel GeoIP-data zlib-devel

Please check the directory /usr/share/GeoIP and verify the data files are there. If the data files are not there, please download them from MaxMind.

 
wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCountry/GeoIP.dat.gz
gunzip GeoIP.dat.gz
wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
gunzip GeoLiteCity.dat.gz

Please install the following requirements.

 
yum install httpd-devel apr-devel ea-apache24-devel.x86_64 ea-apache24-tools.x86_64

Now compile the mod_geoip Apache module from source.

 
cd /usr/share/GeoIP
wget https://github.com/maxmind/geoip-api-mod_geoip2/archive/1.2.10.tar.gz
tar xvzf 1.2.10.tar.gz
cd geoip-api-mod_geoip2-1.2.10/
sed s/remote_ip/client_ip/g -i mod_geoip.c
apxs -i -a -L/usr/lib64 -I/usr/include -lGeoIP -c mod_geoip.c

Open the mod_geoip.conf file.

 
vim /etc/apache2/conf.modules.d/mod_geoip.conf

Add the following to it.

 
LoadModule geoip_module /usr/lib64/apache2/modules/mod_geoip.so

<IfModule mod_geoip.c>
GeoIPEnable On
GeoIPDBFile /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat Standard
GeoIPDBFile /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCity.dat Standard
</IfModule>

Restart Apache.

 
service httpd restart

Verify the installation using the following command.

 
httpd -M | grep geoip

Possible errors:

Error 1

If these packages “GeoIP, GeoIP-devel, GeoIP-data” are not available on yum, you need to install EPEL repository on the server.

 
yum install epel-release

Now run the following command again.

 
yum install GeoIP GeoIP-devel GeoIP-data zlib-devel

Error 2

You may get the following error while running “yum install httpd-devel apr-devel ea-apache24-devel.x86_64 ea-apache24-tools.x86_64”

 
Transaction Check Error:
 file /usr/share/aclocal/find_apr.m4 conflicts between attempted installs of ea-apr-devel-1.5.2-3.3.2.cpanel.x86_64 and apr-devel-1.3.9-5.el6_2.x86_64

You can sorted it by removing apr-devel

 
yum remove apr-devel

Now run:

 
yum install httpd-devel ea-apache24-devel.x86_64 ea-apache24-tools.x86_64

Install geoip PHP module

PHP 5.4

Install geoip php module using the following command:

/opt/cpanel/ea-php54/root/usr/bin/pecl install geoip

Check the PHP module is enabled using the following command:

/opt/cpanel/ea-php54/root/usr/bin/php -m | grep geoip

PHP 5.5

Install geoip module using pecl:

/opt/cpanel/ea-php55/root/usr/bin/pecl install geoip

Check the PHP module is enabled using the following command:

/opt/cpanel/ea-php55/root/usr/bin/php -m | grep geoip

PHP 5.6

Install geoip module using pecl:

/opt/cpanel/ea-php56/root/usr/bin/pecl install geoip

Check the PHP module is enabled using the following command:

/opt/cpanel/ea-php56/root/usr/bin/php -m | grep geoip

PHP 7.0

Install geoip php module using the following command:

/opt/cpanel/ea-php70/root/usr/bin/pecl install geoip

Check the PHP module is enabled using the following command:

/opt/cpanel/ea-php70/root/usr/bin/php -m | grep geoip

PHP 7.1

Install geoip php module using the following command:

/opt/cpanel/ea-php71/root/usr/bin/pecl install http://pecl.php.net/get/geoip-1.1.1.tgz

Check the PHP module is enabled using the following command:

/opt/cpanel/ea-php71/root/usr/bin/php -m | grep geoip

PHP 7.2

Install geoip php module using the following command:

/opt/cpanel/ea-php72/root/usr/bin/pecl install http://pecl.php.net/get/geoip-1.1.1.tgz

Check the PHP module is enabled using the following command:

/opt/cpanel/ea-php72/root/usr/bin/php -m | grep geoip

Also check how to install mod_geoip on cPanel with EasyApache3 from Here

That’s it!

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