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Having several Joomla 2.x and 3.x sites, all on the one server, all individually updating their geoip databases, it struck me they can all use the one file if I could simply download one master copy somewhere like in /etc or /var where all the sites have permission to read it.

One way to achieve it would be for me to remove the file plugins/system/akgeoip/db/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb and replace it with a link that point to (for example) /var/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb but I would have to do that on each site.

Then I thought, well if the Geolite plugin gets updated, or if someone clicks the "Update the Geolite 2 country database" button, that link might well get replaced or overwritten (or give a permission error to the person pressing the button).

It might be nice for the Geolite2 plugin (and/or Akeeba) to have an option to look at a central database file such as /var/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb so we only need to do one update per month instead of update every site.

Just a thought. :-)

Brian

Yes, I had considered changing the permissions so it would not get deleted.

However, I tried creating a symlink pointing to /var/geolite2/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb but when I did that, I could no longer operate the backend on the site (well I could log in, but then just got a white screen).

I figured out it was because openbasedir restrictions were in effect and /var/geolite2 is not within the allowed paths.

However, I would have thought that the Geolite plugin should be a bit more robust and not crash the administrator site because I could not open the database. :-)

I shall try again, this time adding /var/geolite2 to the global allowed path and see if that works.

Incidentally, installing the Geolite plugin on a site that only has Admintools Core (and not the Pro version) also results in a white screen when trying to update the geolite database by pressing the button. I found this out when I accidentally installed the non-pro version on a site.

I shall report back how I get on with the openbasedir change.

Thanks

Brian