{"id":5235,"date":"2020-07-23T13:47:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T08:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/?p=5235"},"modified":"2024-10-28T12:48:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T07:18:25","slug":"country-based-redirection-in-magento-using-geoip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/country-based-redirection-in-magento-using-geoip\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Based Redirection In Magento using GeoIP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The GeoIP module is used to find which Geolocation or area is used by the IP from IP location database. We can setup country based redirection rule in htaccess for Magento2 which will redirect the required stores to the specific countries.
To add rules for country based redirection in Magento we have to install the GeoIP module. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Install GeoIP and dependencies<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

yum install GeoIP GeoIP-devel GeoIP-data zlib-devel<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Change the directory to the \/usr\/share\/GeoIP\/, upload and extract GeoIP database in this location
You can download the GeoIP database from https:\/\/dev.maxmind.com\/geoip\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
cd \/usr\/share\/GeoIP\/\ntar -xzvf GeoLite2-ASN_20200630.tar.gz<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Install the required packages for GeoIP<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
yum install httpd-devel apr-devel ea-apache24-devel.x86_64 ea-apache24-tools.x86_64<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
 Download and extract GeoIP module using the below steps<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
wget https:\/\/github.com\/maxmind\/geoip-api-mod_geoip2\/archive\/1.2.10.tar.gz\ntar -xzvf 1.2.10.tar.gz\ncd mod_geoip2_1.2.10\nsed s\/remote_ip\/client_ip\/g -i mod_geoip.c<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Compile and install the GeoIP module<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
apxs -i -a -L\/usr\/lib64 -I\/usr\/include -lGeoIP -c mod_geoip.c<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Load the module in Apache at Apache modules conf.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
vim \/etc\/apache2\/conf.modules.d\/mod_geoip.conf\n\n###########\nLoadModule geoip_module \/usr\/lib64\/apache2\/modules\/mod_geoip.so\n\n<IfModule mod_geoip.c>\nGeoIPEnable On\nGeoIPScanProxyHeaders On\nGeoIPDBFile \/usr\/share\/GeoIP\/GeoIPASNum.dat Standard\nGeoIPDBFile \/usr\/share\/GeoIP\/GeoIPCity.dat Standard\n<\/IfModule>\n###########<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Check Apache Configuration and restart Apache<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
httpd -t\nservice httpd restart<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Verify if GeoIP module is enabled by<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
httpd -M | grep geoip<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Next, we have to add the rule for redirection of countrywide access in Magento2 site. There are certain country codes available for GeoIP database. We can use that country codes here to add rules in .htaccess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>\nRewriteEngine on\nRewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^(GB|RU|IN)$\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^\/store\/\nRewriteRule .* https:\/\/www.example.com\/store\/ [L]\n<\/IfModule>\n\nwhere GB|RU|IN are the country codes for UK, Russia and India<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Restart Apache<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
service httpd restart<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
According to the above rule, the users accessing from UK and Russia and India for \/store of https:\/\/www.example.com, will redirect to https:\/\/www.example.com\/store.
By using GeoIP module we can also block and deny countrywide access to the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The GeoIP module is used to find which Geolocation or area is used by the IP from IP location database. We can setup country based redirection rule in htaccess for Magento2 which will redirect the required stores to the specific countries.To add rules for country based redirection in Magento we have to install the GeoIP […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,68],"tags":[42,91,92,35,93,94,18,95,96,97,98,99,100,72,22],"class_list":["post-5235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-server-management","tag-apache","tag-apache-country-block","tag-apache-redirection","tag-apache-webserver","tag-apache-website","tag-countrybased-redirection","tag-cpanel","tag-htaccess-redirects","tag-htaccess-rules","tag-magento","tag-magento-county-block","tag-magento-redirects","tag-magento2","tag-server-management","tag-server-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}