Runtime Configuration

The behaviour of these functions is affected by settings in php.ini.

**GeoIP Configure Options**
Name	Default	Changeable	Changelog
geoip.custom_directory	""	PHP_INI_ALL

Here's a short explanation of the configuration directives.

geoip.custom_directory string: Empty by default, but can be set to force a different database path than the one compiled in the library.

User Contributed Notes

James

7 months ago


This page is unclear on exactly which MaxMind DB you need. 

I found the answer here: http://h3x.no/2010/11/10/php-geoip-required-database-not-available-at-usrsharegeoipgeoip-dat

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

MaxMind may have changed their site recently to highlight a different format; if you look on http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/ it links to a mmdb format file now.