Set up Nginx's GeoIP module for country detection without recompiling — modern database sources, country-based routing, access control, and passing location data to PHP.

If you have your own server or use a Linux/BSD desktop at home there's little reason why you can't just quickly do a GeoIP lookup from the command line. Here's how to install it on Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS and FreeBSD along with a trick or two.

Maxmind makes a variety of APIs and tools to use their geolocation database and one such tool is the mod_geoip module for Apache. This article will show you how to setup Nginx's own geoip module and mimic the same variables presented to PHP like Apache does.

Geolocation or Geo-Targeting is a method of identifying a visitor's location in the world. You can use this information for anything as simple as greeting a visitor in their native language to automatically redirecting visitors to valid affiliate offers for the visiting demographic. This article takes a look at four different services that offer geolocation for free.