mod_geoip installation

If you want painless, then you can forgo using mod_geoip altogether and instead block specific IPs or IP ranges via mod_setenvif and mod_authz_host.

To do that, first add setenvif_module and authz_host_module to your modules in httpd.conf, if you've not done so already:

LoadModule setenvif_module modules/mod_setenvif.so
LoadModule authz_host_module modules/mod_authz_host.so

Then, set a variable ('blocked' for example, but you can call it anything you want):

# "xxx\.xxx\.xxx\.xxx" is a regular expression.
# You can modify it to allow multiple IPs, ranges of IPs, etc.
SetEnvIf X-Forwarded-For xxx\.xxx\.xxx\.xxx blocked

Finally, allow access based on the variable:

<Location "/">
 Order Allow,Deny
 Allow from all
 Deny from env=blocked
</Location>

If you want to go the painful route and use mod_geoip, then you'll need to build the full stack from source, including:

• Apache
• mod_wsgi
• GeoIP
• mod_geoip

You can find some instructions for building Apache and mod_wsgi in our old forum. This will also build apxs which you can use later to build mod_geoip.

We also have instructions for building GeoIP. You can skip the steps for installing the Python binding if you don't need that.

Instructions for building and configuring mod_geoip are available here: MaxMind - GeoIP Apache API

Hope that helps! Please let us know if you have any further questions.