GeoIP

Steps to setup and configure the GeoIP project

This Download provides a sample project called 'geoip' with an application called 'whereami'.

It it designed to highlight the mapping of users based on an external IP address using the GeoIP library, and an integrated convenience utility from within GeoDjango.

The default url of the GeoIP app:

Dependencies for GeoIP Project

• GeoIP C libary and python bindings
• Note, no database is needed for this app and there is no models.py file
• Therefore, do not put django.contrib.gis in your INSTALLED_APPS

Steps to run the GeoIP project

Step 1

Install the GeoIP C library and python api: http://www.maxmind.com/app/python

$ wget http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/c/GeoIP-1.4.4.tar.gz
$ tar xvf GeoIP-1.4.4.tar.gz
$ cd GeoIP-1.4.4
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Note: the GeoIP lib needs zlib.h, so you may need to sudo apt-get install zlibc zlib1g-dev libssl-dev

$ wget http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/python/GeoIP-Python-1.2.2.tar.gz
$ tar xvf GeoIP-Python-1.2.2.tar.gz
$ cd GeoIP-Python-1.2.2
$ python setup.py install

# if on linux, run:
$ ldconfig # and confirm that 'usr/local/lib' is in /etc/ld.so.conf

Step 2

Download Maxmind GeoLiteCity.dat: http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/

$ wget http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
$ gzip -d GeoLiteCity.dat.gz

Step 3

Extract or copy the .dat file to the data dir and confirm that the GEOIP_LOCATION in settings.py points to this directory (absolute or relative).

Step 4

python manage.py runserver

Step 5

To run remotely you'll need to sign up for a free Google Maps API key and use it to fill in the value for the GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY setting in settings.py.