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Installing GeoIP for PHP on CentOS 5 Server

After a few hours battling with this I finally managed to get this to work.

Firstly, you need to install the EPEL repository files.

sudo rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5Server/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

It’s worth, at this point if the above command doesn’t work, looking at http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/ and finding your CentOS distro and navigating through to find the correct package url. Then you can replace the url in the above statement.

Once that is done you can perform the actual GeoIP library:

sudo yum install geoip-devel

Finally,

sudo pecl install geoip

to install the PHP PECL extension.

Now all you need to to is add extension=geoip.so to your php.ini