NAME¶
GeoIP.conf - Configuration file for geoipupdate
SYNOPSIS¶
This file allows you to configure your geoipupdate program to download
purchased GeoIP2 and GeoIP Legacy databases.
DESCRIPTION¶
The file consists of one setting per line. Lines starting with # are
comments and will not be processed. All setting keywords are case sensitive.
The default configuration file is found at: /etc/GeoIP.conf
Required settings:¶
- EditionIDs
- List of database edition IDs. Edition IDs may consist of letters, digits,
and dashes (e.g., "GeoIP2-City", "106"). Note: this
was formerly called ProductIds.
Optional settings:¶
- AccountID
- Your MaxMind account ID. This was formerly known as UserId. This is
required when downloading a paid database.
- LicenseKey
- Your case-sensitive MaxMind license key. This is required when downloading
a paid database.
- DatabaseDirectory
- The directory to store the database files. The default is
/var/lib/GeoIP
- Host
- The host name of the server to use. The default is
updates.maxmind.com.
- Proxy
- The proxy host name or IP address. You may optionally specify a port
number, e.g., 127.0.0.1:8888. If no port number is specified, 1080
will be used.
- ProxyUserPassword
- The proxy user name and password, separated by a colon. For instance,
username:password.
- PreserveFileTimes
- Whether to preserve modification times of files downloaded from the
server. This option is either 0 or 1. The default is
0.
- LockFile
- The lock file to use. This ensures only one geoipupdate process can
run at a time. Note: Once created, this lockfile is not removed from the
filesystem. The default is .geoipupdate.lock under the
DatabaseDirectory.
FILES¶
- /etc/GeoIP.conf
- Default geoipupdate configuration file.