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Update GeoIP.dat automatically

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:43:02 +0000

Some of you will use GeoIP for geotargeting (a tutorial about this will follow).

One of the few things you’d have to manually if there was no cronjob, is to update the GeoIP.dat regularly.

Put this little sh script into cron.daily and it will be updated automatically:

#!/bin/bash
 
UNGZIPPED_FILE=GeoIP.dat
GZIP_FILE=GeoIP.dat.gz
REMOTE_PATH=http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCountry/
LOCAL_PATH=/tmp/
LOCAL_FINAL_PATH=/www/vhtdocs/geo_ip/ #update this to your directory of choice
 
cd $LOCAL_PATH
wget -N -q $REMOTE_PATH$GZIP_FILE
gunzip $GZIP_FILE
cp -f $UNGZIPPED_FILE $LOCAL_FINAL_PATH$UNGZIPPED_FILE
 
exit

Linux dependencies hell

admin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:19:22 +0000

Interesting details about linux dependencies and how to figure out what you need to compile / build a new module e.g. Python :

http://www.comptechdoc.org/

MySQL-Python needs MySQL 4.0

admin — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:54:37 +0000

If you have MySQL5 on your server, but you need MySQL-Python (like me), then you gotta install Python 2.6.1 (latest update) with a different prefix. If you simply install it via yum you might mess up your whole system!

Good info about linux configure and make:
CentOS.org
linuxforums.org/

Most important info, if you have CentOS on your server you gotta install the tk-devel package first
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