Geo IP

Note

This documentation only applies to On-premise databases.

Installation

  1. Download both the GeoLite2 City and Country databases. You should end up with two files called GeoLite2-City.mmdb and GeoLite2-Country.mmdb.

  2. Move the files to the folder /usr/share/GeoIP/.

    mv ~/Downloads/GeoLite2-City.mmdb /usr/share/GeoIP/
mv ~/Downloads/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb /usr/share/GeoIP/

  3. Restart the server

Note

If you don’t want to locate the geoip database in /usr/share/GeoIP/, use the --geoip-city-db and --geoip-country-db options of the Odoo command line interface. These options take the absolute path to the GeoIP database file and use it as the GeoIP database. For example:

./odoo-bin --geoip-city-db= ~/Downloads/GeoLite2-City.mmdb

See also

Test GeoIP geolocation in your Odoo website

Edit a web page to include some geo-ip information such as the country name of the current request IP address. To do so:

  1. Go to your website. Open the web page that you want to test GeoIP.

  2. Choose Customize ‣ HTML/CSS/JS Editor.

  3. Add the following piece of XML in the page :

    <h1 class="text-center" t-esc="request.geoip.country.name or 'geoip failure'"/>

  4. Save and refresh the page.

Geo-ip is working if you read your country name displayed in bold in the middle of the page.

In case you read “geoip failure” instead then the geolocalization failed. The common causes are:

  1. The browsing IP address is the localhost (127.0.0.1) or a local area network one. If you don’t know, you can access your website using mobile data.

  2. You are using a reverse-proxy (apache, nginx) in front of Odoo but didn’t start Odoo with the proxy-mode enabled. See proxy mode.

  3. The GeoIP database is corrupt, missing or unaccessible. In such case a warning was logged in the server logs.