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Obsolete: ActiveIP2Country plugin: More accurate IP-to-Country reporting #1112

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robocoder opened this issue Jan 16, 2010 · 7 comments
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Obsolete: ActiveIP2Country plugin: More accurate IP-to-Country reporting #1112

robocoder opened this issue Jan 16, 2010 · 7 comments
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Enhancement For new feature suggestions that enhance Matomo's capabilities or add a new report, new API etc. worksforme The issue cannot be reproduced and things work as intended.
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ActiveIP2Country

The ActiveIP2Country plugin uses an IP-to-country database to determine the visitor's country. In contrast, Piwik normally guesses the visitor's country from his/her browser language and region.

Note: due to changes in IP block assignments, ActiveIP2Country does not attempt to correct earlier log_visit data.

This plugin uses any CSV (comma-separated values) file (named "ip-to-country.csv") containing IP address ranges (start and end expressed as longs) followed by a two letter ISO country code. Values may be double quoted. The country code can be upper or lower case.

The plugin will automatically generate a more compact, binary "ip-to-country.dat" file. To regenerate this file, simply remove it.

Performance

On my antiquated Athlon 1.4 GHz processor (test box):

  • search overhead adds ~ 2 ms per query

If shared memory is available:

  • minimum shared memory segment requires approx: 1 MB
  • loading .dat file into memory: ~ 1 ms

If updating the .csv file:

  • time to re-generate .dat file: ~ 7s

Requirements

  • Piwik 0.5.5 (or above)

To install

  • Extract the attached .zip file in the plugins folder.
  • Activate the plugin from the Settings | Plugins tab.

For support

  • Send me a tweet @vipsoft
  • DO NOT CREATE A NEW TICKET HERE
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Attachment:
ActiveIP2Country.zip

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Updates to the .csv file can be found at:

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Attachment: 2010.01.12 update of ip-to-country.csv
ActiveIP2Country.2.zip

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Proposal:

  • merge functionality from Update jqplot.js #45 into this plugin but re-use the existing country & continent columns, with fallback to region from browser language
  • add an installation/settings screen that (1) tests the server capability (e.g., mod_geoip or geoip extension installed, ability to use GEOIP_MEMORY_CACHE, etc; (2) button to run the geoipupdaterows script; (3) allows the user to select which geolocation implementation to use
  • refactor so that other implementations are available, e.g.,

(This isn't being suggested for #45 due to trademark issues.)

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mattab commented Apr 23, 2011

I assume we can close this ticket, once GeoIP is in core? #1823

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Yes, I'm rolling it into the new plugin.

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Actually, I'll close this ticket now as the ip-to-country.csv file is longer being maintained. (4 months without an update)

@robocoder robocoder added this to the 1.4 - Piwik 1.4 milestone Jul 8, 2014
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