12 May
2011
12 May
'11
11:08 a.m.
Francesco wrote:
I found some problems using the geoip module. My
system is a debian
squeeze x86_64; and I installed the following packages:
ii geoip-database 1.4.7~beta6+dfsg-1
GeoIP library (country database)
Hello Francesco,
Using /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat as database, the
geoip_match("$si",
"src") function failed with retcode -2 (NULL from
GeoIP_record_by_name()). And finally I found the problem with the
GeoIP file DB itself. In particular, compiling a mini program for
debug, it said:
Invalid database type GeoIP Country Edition, expected GeoIP City Edition, Rev 1
After manually downloading the GeoLiteCity.dat from MaxMind.com
everything went fine.
so this means the database that is installed as debian dependency is not correct?
It seems that in sid there is another package available
http://packages.debian.org/de/sid/geoip-database-contrib - is this the correct one?
As this seems to be not available for squeeze, what about just documenting this
in the module README? Can you give me a bit more details, maybe the download
URL - then i can add it to the docs.
Regards,
Henning