MaxMind has several different databases; the database that is the only one supported by most GeoIP "plugins" is Country, which can only map an IP to a country. The City edition can map IPs to cities, zip codes, latitude/longitude, etc..
The plugin you mention does require the City edition, but MaxMind has a free, less accurate GeoLite City DB. The City DB will provide country as well as the finer granularity, so for your purposes (country only) it's fine. I do like the custom header idea, mainly because you can potentially pass the header to a backend for possible processing, but also because the conditionals are easier in VCL. There are a lot of cool things you can do with the City DB beyond static mappings (see bind-geoip on Google Code) that would be cool to see in cosimo/varnish-geoip. -- kb On Mar 16, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Sebastian Cabrera wrote: > Hi everybody, > > i just replied to my own request, because i could not make a decision > whom to write back :) > > You all gave me some very good ideas, i have to discuss them with my > collegues. I also had a look at http://github.com/cosimo/varnish-geoip/, > but also read something about the need to have the "city edition of > GeoIP" and was not sure what this could mean. > > thank you very much, > regards, > > Sebastian > > On 03/16/2010 05:22 PM, Sebastian Cabrera wrote: >> Hi everybody, >> >> On a Website i want to have the posibility to do some rewriting due to >> the Country he's comming from. So if someone visits the Mainpage >> (domain.com) from US i want to have him visiting domain.com/us/. >> Does anyone have any experiences with that? How can i do this? >> I just downloaded and installed the GeoIP Plugin from the varnish wiki >> (http://varnish-cache.org/wiki/GeoipUsingInlineC), but how can i use it? >> Is there any possibility to do something like >> >> if (get_country_code(client.ip) == "US") { >> set req.url = "/us/" >> } >> >> ? >> >> thanks for your help, >> regards, >> >> Sebastian >> >> _______________________________________________ >> varnish-misc mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.varnish-cache.org/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc > > > -- > A: Yes. >> Q: Are you sure? >>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > > _______________________________________________ > varnish-misc mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.varnish-cache.org/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc -- kb _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.varnish-cache.org/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
