GeoIP.conf - Man Page
Configuration file for geoipupdate
Synopsis
This file allows you to configure your geoipupdate
program to download GeoIP2, GeoLite2, and GeoIP Legacy databases.
Description
The file consists of one setting per line. Lines starting with #
are comments and will not be processed. All setting keywords are case sensitive.
Required settings
- AccountID
Your MaxMind account ID. This was formerly known as
UserId
.- LicenseKey
Your case-sensitive MaxMind license key.
- EditionIDs
List of space-separated database edition IDs. Edition IDs may consist of letters, digits, and dashes. For example,
GeoIP2-City 106
would download the GeoIP2 City database (GeoIP2-City
) and the GeoIP Legacy Country database (106
). Note: this was formerly calledProductIds
.
Optional settings
- DatabaseDirectory
The directory to store the database files. If not set, the default is /usr/share/GeoIP. This can be overridden at run time by the
-d
command line argument.- Host
The host name of the server to use. The default is
updates.maxmind.com
.- Proxy
The proxy host name or IP address. You may optionally specify a port number, e.g.,
127.0.0.1:8888
. If no port number is specified, 1080 will be used.- ProxyUserPassword
The proxy user name and password, separated by a colon. For instance,
username:password
.- PreserveFileTimes
Whether to preserve modification times of files downloaded from the server. This option is either
0
or1
. The default is0
.- LockFile
The lock file to use. This ensures only one
geoipupdate
process can run at a time. Note: Once created, this lockfile is not removed from the filesystem. The default is.geoipupdate.lock
under theDatabaseDirectory
.- RetryFor
The amount of time to retry for when errors during HTTP transactions are encountered. It can be specified as a (possibly fractional) decimal number followed by a unit suffix. Valid time units are
ns
,us
(orµs
),ms
,s
,m
,h
. The default is5m
(5 minutes).
Deprecated settings
The following are deprecated and will be ignored if present:
Protocol
SkipPeerVerification
SkipHostnameVerification