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Enable Piwik geolocation support with GeoIP PECL
This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/9758234.
Introduction
By default Piwik uses the provider location to guess a visitor’s country based on the language they use. This is not very accurate, so they recommend installing and using GeoIP.
Requirements
- Ubuntu server
- libgeoip-dev
- Nginx
- Nginx minimal website
- php5-fpm
- php5-dev, php5-geoip, php5-mysql
- Nginx php5-fpm website
- MySQL
- Piwik website
Installation
Download the latest GeoLite database
sudo wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz -P /var/www/[piwik]/misc/
Unzip the database.
sudo gunzip /var/www/[piwik]/misc/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
Rename the file.
cd /var/www/[piwik]/misc
sudo mv GeoLiteCity.dat GeoIPCity.dat
Update the access rights.
sudo chown www-data:www-data GeoIPCity.dat
Update the php configuration file.
sudo vi /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini
Add the geoip configuration.
geoip.custom_directory = /var/www/[piwik]/misc
Restart Nginx and php5-fpm service.
sudo nginx -t && sudo service nginx reload
sudo service php5-fpm restart
Now open your piwik installation on //[host]/piwik/index.php?module=UserCountry&action=adminIndex
and check the GeoIP (PECL)
option.
In addition the the GeoLite download url to the Download URL
field and click save.
Source
How do I install the GeoIP Geo location PECL extension?
Categories: Web serverTags: analytics , piwik
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