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    bob at qww dot cz
    6 years ago
    To install geoip on debian lenny:

    wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
    gunzip GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
    sudo mkdir -v /usr/share/GeoIP
    sudo mv -v GeoLiteCity.dat /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat

    sudo apt-get install php5-geoip

    and then try it in PHP:
    print_r(geoip_record_by_name('php.net'));

    returns:
    Array
    (
        [country_code] => US
        [country_code3] => USA
        [country_name] => United States
        [region] => CA
        [city] => Sunnyvale
        [postal_code] => 94089
        [latitude] => 37.4249000549
        [longitude] => -122.007400513
        [dma_code] => 807
        [area_code] => 408
    )
    matt at kynx dot org
    7 years ago
    Installation on OSX (Leopard) running MAMP

    First you need MacPorts installed and operational:
    http://www.macports.org

    Use that to install libgeoip. From a terminal window, do:

        $ sudo port install libgeoip

    This installs the library in /opt/local. Unfortunately the current version of the PECL extension doesn't know to look there, so you'll need to download and compile manually from http://pecl.php.net/package/geoip

    Assuming it's in your download directory, extract it:

        $ cd ~/Downloads
        $ tar -xzf geoip-1.0.3.tgz
        $ cd geoip-1.0.3

    Now edit the config.m4 file and change the SEARCH_PATH variable, as described in the following bug report:
    http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=14795

    Now you should be able to compile and install the extension as usual. Make sure you use the phpize from the MAMP package, not the one that ships with OSX:

        $ /App*/MAMP/bin/php5/bin/phpize
        $ ./configure
        $ make
        $ sudo make install

    If phpize complains that it cannot find files under /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/include, make sure you have the development version of MAMP installed (link towards the bottom of the MAMP download page).

    You're nearly there! The extension will have installed in /usr/lib/php. You need to copy it into your MAMP extension directory:

        $ cd /App*/MAMP/bin/php5/lib/php/ext*/no-debug*/
        $ mv /usr/lib/php/ext*/no-debug*/geoip.so .

    Now edit the php.ini file in /Applications/MAMP/conf/php5/ and add the following line:

         extension=geoip.so

    Restart your web server and check phpinfo() - the geoip extension should now be listed.

    Good luck!
    munitoris at inetspec dot com
    6 years ago
    At the time of this writing, the PECL binaries at http://pecl4win.php.net/ are NOT AVAILABLE.

    Specifically, the php_geoip.dll extension is not available in a pre-compiled form for Windoze PHP developers.

    There are only two alternative solutions to self-compiling for Windoze (AFAIK):

    1) Use the "Pure" PHP version of the GeoIP API from MaxMind available here (http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/php/).  This solution is not really acceptable for production machines because of its slower speed.  However, it does work for development.

    2) Use the older version of this pre-compiled extension (http://www.gknw.de/php/ext_win32/php-5.2.1_geoip-w32.zip).  It worked on my development system using Windoze XP sp2, Apache 2.2.3 and PHP 5.2.10.  There are also older versions for PHP 5.1.2 and PHP 5.1.4 in the same directory.
    kthx
    1 year ago
    Nice to see that no one (not even PHP) provides windows instructions anymore...
    ewwink at yahoo dot com
    3 years ago
    compiled .dll or php_geoip.dll is availbale at:

    http://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/releases/geoip/1.0.8/

    tested and worked with PHP Version 5.3.9 in windows 7 Home Premium
    ben at SPAMLESS dot ism dot net dot nz
    5 years ago
    SUSE (as root):

    # zypper install php5-devel
    # SuSEconfig
    # mkdir -p /usr/share/GeoIP
    # wget http://pecl.php.net/get/geoip-1.0.7.tgz
    (whatever the latest version is from http://pecl.php.net/package/geoip )
    # tar -xzf geoip-1.0.7.tgz
    # cd geoip-1.0.7/
    # phpize
    # ./configure
    # make
    # make install
    # cp /etc/php5/conf.d/gd.ini /etc/php5/conf.d/geoip.ini
    # vi /etc/php5/conf.d/geoip.ini
    Change gd.so to geoip.so
    :wq!
    # vi /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
    Find the [gd] section and add a new section afterwards:
    [geoip]
    geoip.custom_directory = /usr/share/GeoIP/
    :wq!
    # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

    Check phpinfo() that geoip is loaded and the default location for the DB's is set.

    If you want the free DBs that are update roughly monthly, follow the "Lite" links from http://www.maxmind.com/app/country and download the tar.gz to /usr/share/GeoIP/ and extract.
    code at edoceo dot com
    7 years ago
    Installation on Gentoo (2008.0) as follows:

    emerge dev-libs/geoip
    pecl install geoip

    Then fetch the databases to /usr/share/GeoIP (wrapped!)
    cd /usr/share/GeoIP
    wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/ \
      database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
    wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/ \
      database/GeoLiteCountry/GeoIP.dat.gz
    sballeste at gmail dot com
    5 years ago
    If the data files under /usr/share/GeoIP/ are not readable by apache, apache's process will crash with a segfault on calls to geoip functions.
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