Using GeoIP Functionality in Varnish

[Richard Chiswell]

Hi Sebastian,

As my C is a bit rusty and as I needed this working before the GeoIP 
plugin worked, I created something on the basis:

sub vcl_recv {
...
if (req.url !~ "^/(en_gb|en_us)/*") {
        set req.url = "/geoip.php?ip=" client.ip "&originalurl=" 
req.http.x-originalurl;
        lookup;
}
..
}

This looks for urls which do not start en_gb or en_us and bounces them 
through geoip.php which is a simple script (basically Maxmind's default 
PHP script with a few minor tweaks) which then just returns a 302 
redirect to example.com/(countrycode)/(original url).

Hope it helps.

Richard Chiswell

Sebastian Cabrera wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> On a Website i want to have the posibility to do some rewriting due to
> the Country he's comming from. So if someone visits the Mainpage
> (domain.com) from US i want to have him visiting domain.com/us/.
> Does anyone have any experiences with that? How can i do this?
> I just downloaded and installed the GeoIP Plugin from the varnish wiki
> (http://varnish-cache.org/wiki/GeoipUsingInlineC), but how can i use it?
> Is there any possibility to do something like
>
> if (get_country_code(client.ip) == "US") {
>     set req.url = "/us/"
> }
>
> ?
>
> thanks for your help,
> regards,
>
> Sebastian
>
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