Awstats: how to get geoipfree working?

[DianeDuane]

Folks,

I just managed to get Awstats installed, and I'd like to add the GeoIPfree plugin to it, but it seems the necessary module isn't available in my present server.

I see that the necessary Perl support modules (Memoize and IPFree) can be downloaded from CPAN. Are those something I can install and compile in my own cgi-bin area? (With instructions of this kind in each module's directory, I'd guess -- )



# perl Makefile.PL
# make
# make test
# make install

Or am I completely confused, and is this something the individual user can't do? (And I may have screwed up the code as well. Please forgive me, I'm new at this...) Or are these modules installed somewhere that I don't know about?

Any help would be welcome.

Thanks in advance --
Diane

[Bob]

Hello Diane,

It appears that the AWstats GeoIP plugin requires the Perl module Geo::IP...

# Plugin: GeoIP
# Perl modules required: Geo::IP or Geo::IP::PurePerl (from Maxmind) entered in code box to prevent smiley...

If memory serves me correctly the Geo::IP modules were determined to be too server intensive for the Community Servers as lookups of that nature are very resource intensive and best left for dedicated servers or run on your local computer for post processing.

-Bob

[DianeDuane]

No probs: I'll handle it locally, then. Thanks!