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Rohit Dhankar
Rohit Dhankar

Reputation: 1644

Cant download GeoIP data for - Nginx >> GeoIP - 404 Error - Resolving geolite.maxmind.com (geolite.maxmind.com)

Following along the Nginx CookBook - cant seem to download GeoIP data , error in terminal as below - 

/etc/nginx/geoip$ wget "http://geolite.maxmind.com/\
> download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCountry/GeoIP.dat.gz"
--2019-10-22 15:55:46--  http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCountry/GeoIP.dat.gz
Resolving geolite.maxmind.com (geolite.maxmind.com)... 104.17.200.89, 104.17.201.89, 2606:4700::6811:c959, ...
Connecting to geolite.maxmind.com (geolite.maxmind.com)|104.17.200.89|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2019-10-22 15:55:48 ERROR 404: Not Found.

Kindly suggest an alternative - the GeoIP folks mention somewhere here - https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/ , to post questions on SO .

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2944

Answers (2)

Dominic Hopf
Dominic Hopf

Reputation: 66

You have to register for an MaxMind account now. See this Blogpost from MaxMind for more Information: https://blog.maxmind.com/2019/12/18/significant-changes-to-accessing-and-using-geolite2-databases/

Upvotes: 3

kobaltz
kobaltz

Reputation: 7070

Those databases have been discontinued. However, you can still find them on Web Archive.

http://web.archive.org/web/20181229152721/http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCountry/GeoIP.dat.gz

Upvotes: 4

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