I had the same question, and @vladiastudillo answer was the missing piece I needed. First add the nginx stable repo: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable Then run apt update: sudo apt-get update And get the nginx geoip module: sudo apt-get install nginx-module-geoip This will download and load the module to /usr/lib/nginx/modules To load the nginx module, open … Read more
No you can’t – IP addresses get reallocated and reassigned from time to time, so the mapping of IP to location will also change over time. If you want to find out the location that an IP address currently maps to you can either download a geolocation database, such as GeoLite from MaxMind, or use … Read more
There are free, easy APIs you can use, like those: http://ipinfodb.com/ip_location_api.php http://www.ipgeo.com/api/ http://ip2.cc/ http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm https://iplocate.io/ and plenty others. Which one looks the most trustworthy is up to you 🙂 Otherwise, there are scripts which are based on local databases on your server. The database data needs to be updated regularly, though. Check out this one: … Read more
You could download a free GeoIP database and lookup the IP address locally, or you could use a third party service and perform a remote lookup. This is the simpler option, as it requires no setup, but it does introduce additional latency. One third party service you could use is mine, http://ipinfo.io. They provide hostname, … Read more