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#12701 cron job to update geo-ip db

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Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 19 June 2012 02:20 CDT

Monday, 18 June 2012 20:57 CDT

user52972
Per this thread: https://www.akeebabackup.com/my-tickets/ticket/admin-tools/11004-i-would-like-to-use-cron-to-update-the-geoip-db.html

Would you mind creating a script that will run as a cron job to automatically download and install the geo-ip Db?

All of my sites are on linux servers.

Many many thanks if you can help.

-jay

Tuesday, 19 June 2012 02:20 CDT

nicholas
You can do something like the following. Inside your site's cli directory create the file fetch_geoip.sh with the following contents: 
#!/bin/sh
cd `pwd`/../administrator/components/com_admintools/assets/geoip
rm GeoIP.dat 2> /dev/null
wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCountry/GeoIP.dat
.gz 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null
gunzip GeoIP.dat.gz

Give that file 0755 permissions. Now create a CRON job which runs this script every month and you're set. Basic Linux command line kung-fu :)

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