GeoIP for Apache on Directadmin server

Here you can find instructions on how to install GeoIP module for Apache on a Directadmin server.

Based on https://github.com/maxmind/geoip-api-mod_geoip2/blob/master/INSTALL.md

Compile module

Here in the example we download and compile the latest available module, at the moment of writing this post it is 1.2.10. The latest version can be found here: https://github.com/maxmind/geoip-api-mod_geoip2/releases

cd /usr/local/src
wget https://github.com/maxmind/geoip-api-mod_geoip2/archive/1.2.10.tar.gz -O GeoIP.1.2.10.tar.gz
tar -zxvf GeoIP.1.2.10.tar.gz
cd geoip-api-mod_geoip2-1.2.10/
apxs -i -a -L/usr/local/lib -I/usr/local/include -lGeoIP -c mod_geoip.c
/usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/build rewrite_confs

In the end of it you can find the file /usr/lib/apache/mod_geoip.so, if it's missing, then a compilation failed. And you should check every command for possible errors.

Activate module in Apache

echo "LoadModule geoip_module       /usr/lib/apache/mod_geoip.so" >> /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-includes.conf

Restart Apache and test

apachectl -M 2>&1 | grep geoip

you should see:

geoip_module (shared)

That's it.