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#15485 GeoIP install

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 20 March 2013 02:53 CDT

williams+creative

Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? No
Have I searched the tickets before posting? almost
Have I read the documentation before posting (opdating?)? yes
Joomla! version: (2.5.9)
PHP version: (5.3.21)
MySQL version: (3.5.5)
Host: (danhost.dk)
Admin Tools version: (2.5.9)

Description of my issue:

I try to install GeoIP.dat, on my joomla 2.5.9 website to exclude some countries from spamming my website, I have downloaded GeoIP.dat.gz from Maxmind uncompressed the file, then I got the file GeoIP.dat

I uploaded the file to the administrator/components/com_ars/assets/geoip/GeoIP.dat

But when I'm accessing Geographical blockage in the Admin Tool Pro, it says that you do not have the required GeoIP.dat file (download the file gives me an error, do it manually you say)

I can only find your documentation on how to update the file, but not to install the file and get admin tool to read it - can you give me a hint on this nicholas many thanks and regards
Ulric from denmark

 

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

You have uploaded the GeoIP.dat in Akeeba Release System. You need a new copy for Admin Tools. Upload a copy of GeoIP.dat to administrator/components/com_admintools/assets/geoip. That will suffice.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

williams+creative

Done thanks...I read your attitude to Geo blokkking also "Should I use this feature?"

regards

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

I consider GeoBlocking to be a generally bad idea. It's not 100% accurate and easy to circumvent. That said, there are certain use cases where it is useful, like sites which only want to be accessible from one specific country for legal or business strategy reasons. Should you use it? If you have to ask this question I'd say that you shouldn't be using it. That's my humble opinion.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

williams+creative

many thanks

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

You're welcome!

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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