Nginx Module

This is an IP2Location Nginx Module that enables the user to identify the country code and country name by IP address. In general, it is faster, easier and more accurate than reverse DNS lookups.

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1. Download IP2location C library from here.
2. Download and decompress this Nginx module package.
3. Change the path to IP2Location library in "ngx_http_ip2location_module.c".
4. Re-compile Nginx from source to include this module. Add the below directive into the compile of Nginx:

   ./configure --add-module=/absolute/path/to/nginx-ip2location-8.0.0

5. make
6. make install
7. Edit your Nginx config file to point the correct path of IP2Location database file:

   ip2location_database /absolute/path/to/IP2LOCATION-DB1.BIN;

 

Block visitors from China:

if ( $ip2location_country_code = "CN" ) {
	return 403;
}

 

Redirect visitors from Canada, United States, and Mexico to new page:

if ( $ip2location_country_code ~* "CA|US|MX" ) {
	rewrite ^ http://example.com/newpage.html permanent;
}

 

• ngx-ip2location
  This is a IP2Location Nginx Module that enables the user to identify the country, region, city, latitude, longitude, zip code, time zone, ISP, domain name, connection type, area code and weather by IP address.

 

The following evaluation copy of the database file has limited range of IP address information compare to commercial. For evaluation purpose, you can query IP addresses from 0.0.0.0-99.255.255.255 (IPv4) or 2A04:0:0:0:0:0:0:0-2A04:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF (IPv6).

Sample Packages	IPv4	IPv6
IP2Location DB1 Sample Bin File	673.77 kB	350.84 kB
IP2Location DB2 Sample Bin File	36.92 MB	378.66 kB
IP2Location DB3 Sample Bin File	20.22 MB	363.65 kB
IP2Location DB4 Sample Bin File	54.31 MB	388.27 kB
IP2Location DB5 Sample Bin File	30.53 MB	370.18 kB
IP2Location DB6 Sample Bin File	64.23 MB	393.44 kB
IP2Location DB7 Sample Bin File	60.22 MB	398.64 kB
IP2Location DB8 Sample Bin File	70.36 MB	403.55 kB
IP2Location DB9 Sample Bin File	35.30 MB	373.45 kB
IP2Location DB10 Sample Bin File	76.07 MB	408.65 kB
IP2Location DB11 Sample Bin File	35.96 MB	374.17 kB
IP2Location DB12 Sample Bin File	76.70 MB	409.59 kB
IP2Location DB13 Sample Bin File	34.36 MB	371.65 kB
IP2Location DB14 Sample Bin File	77.93 MB	410.29 kB
IP2Location DB15 Sample Bin File	39.07 MB	378.07 kB
IP2Location DB16 Sample Bin File	82.67 MB	415.93 kB
IP2Location DB17 Sample Bin File	41.63 MB	380.09 kB
IP2Location DB18 Sample Bin File	90.05 MB	425.95 kB
IP2Location DB19 Sample Bin File	73.20 MB	404.88 kB
IP2Location DB20 Sample Bin File	92.55 MB	427.07 kB
IP2Location DB21 Sample Bin File	42.58 MB	380.72 kB
IP2Location DB22 Sample Bin File	96.68 MB	430.11 kB
IP2Location DB23 Sample Bin File	73.62 MB	405.90 kB
IP2Location DB24 Sample Bin File	97.71 MB	431.79 kB