Geo IP Installation (On-Premises Database)

Installation

Warning

Please note that the installation depends on your computer’s operating system and distribution. We will assume that a Linux operating system is being used.

  1. Install geoip2 Python library
    pip install geoip2

  2. Download the GeoLite2 City database. You should end up with a file called GeoLite2-City.mmdb

  3. Move the file to the folder /usr/share/GeoIP/
    mv ~/Downloads/GeoLite2-City.mmdb /usr/share/GeoIP/

  4. Restart the server

Note

If you can’t/don’t want to locate the geoip database in /usr/share/GeoIP/, you can use the --geoip-db option of the Juniper command line interface. This option takes the absolute path to the GeoIP database file and uses it as the GeoIP database. For example:

./Juniper-bin --geoip-db= ~/Downloads/GeoLite2-City.mmdb

See also

Warning

GeoIP Python library can also be used. However this version is discontinued since January 1. See GeoLite Legacy databases are now discontinued

How To Test GeoIP Geolocation In Your Juniper Website

  1. Go to your website. Open the web page that you want to test GeoIP.

  2. Choose Customize ‣ HTML/CSS/JS Editor.

  3. Add the following piece of XML in the page :

<h1 class="text-center" t-esc="request.session.get('geoip')"/>

You should end up with a dictionary indicating the location of the IP address.

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Note

If the curly braces are empty {}, it can be for any of the following reasons :

  • The browsing IP address is the localhost (127.0.0.1) or a local area network one (192.168.*.*)

  • If a reversed proxy is used, make sure to configure it correctly. See proxy mode

  • geoip2 is not installed or the GeoIP database file wasn’t found

  • The GeoIP database was unable to resolve the given IP address