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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Attachment: Makes the plugin work when GEO ip is installed as PECL Extension
UsePeclExtension.patch
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mattab
commented on April 28, 2024
Attachment: 0.18
GeoIP.zip
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gka
commented on April 28, 2024
Attachment: I patched GeoIP.php to get it working with the new world map widget. The only thing I changed was to add a column for the GeoIP region code that is returned by the API but wasn't stored in the Piwik database. However the map needs this region code to fill those nice country region maps with colors :)
GeoIP.php
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Attachment: 0.18 with minor changes (disabled row evolution, region changes by greg)
GeoIP.2.zip
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Thanks for the wonderful work on this plugin, it’s really great!
Just wanted to add my little contribution with a little feature I use and thought I would share.
By applying the patch ‘patch_GeoIP_0.7_google_map_link’ I just uploaded to the original tree it adds links to google maps with the location of cities in the visitor countries dropdown…
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mattab
commented on April 28, 2024
mike5464 and rembrand, the plugin should show “Unknown” when the visitor couldn’t be located. It will only work well from the upgrade and not fix previous visits. Do you still experience the issue few days after the upgrade?
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
You're using mod_geoip, right? Here's an excerpt from my apache conf:
<IfModule mod_geoip.c>
GeoIPEnable On
GeoIPEnableUTF8 On
GeoIPOutput Env
GeoIPDBFile /path/to/GeoLiteCity.dat MemoryCache
# for mod_proxy's X-Forwarded-For
GeoIPScanProxyHeaders On
</IfModule>
Furthermore, check permissions on GeoLiteCity.dat, try chown <apacheuser> /path/to/GeoLiteCity.dat
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
wrote a small php script to test the Funktion of Geoip:
<html>
<body>
<?php
if( !empty($_SERVER['GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE']) )
{
$locationInfo = array();
$locationInfo['country_code'] = (isset($_SERVER['GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE'])) ? strtolower($_SERVER['GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE']) : self::$defaultLocationInfo['country_code'];
$locationInfo['city'] = (isset($_SERVER['GEOIP_CITY'])) ? utf8_encode($_SERVER['GEOIP_CITY']) : self::$defaultLocationInfo['city'];
$locationInfo['latitude'] = (isset($_SERVER['GEOIP_LATITUDE'])) ? round($_SERVER['GEOIP_LATITUDE'],4) : self::$defaultLocationInfo['latitude'];
$locationInfo['longitude'] = (isset($_SERVER['GEOIP_LONGITUDE'])) ? round($_SERVER['GEOIP_LONGITUDE'],4) : self::$defaultLocationInfo['longitude'];
}
var_dump($locationInfo);
?>
</body>
</html>
Output : array(4) { [ string(2) "de" "city"=> string(7) "Hamburg" [ float(53.55) "longitude"=> float(10) }
Piwik still displays UserCountry_country_ for new requests...
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
I've extended the GeoIP plugin to track in detail (In the US and Canada) which state or region the visitors are from, by adding an extra column to the database (region) and making minor changes to the code. The region can be query from the maxmind db. I was wondering if this feature can be made public?
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mattab
commented on April 28, 2024
duylaiabc, can you please post a screenshot of how the reporting look like?
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
it tried to get location_geoip_latitude, location_geoip_longitude from api.
I added this two columns to archiveDayAggregateVisits sql query and added
if(!isset($this->interestByCountryAndCity[$row['location_geoip_country']][$row['location_geoip_city']]['loc']))
$this->interestByCountryAndCity[$row['location_geoip_country']][$row['location_geoip_city']]['loc']=array('lat' => $row['location_geoip_latitude'], 'lon' => $row['location_geoip_longitude']);
But the result is, most of the data have wrong lat and long values. E.g.:
<row>
<label>Vienna</label>
<nb_visits>2</nb_visits>
<nb_actions>11</nb_actions>
<max_actions>11</max_actions>
<sum_visit_length>330</sum_visit_length>
<bounce_count>0</bounce_count>
<nb_visits_converted>1</nb_visits_converted>
<loc>
<lat>96,4</lat>
<lon>32,7334</lon>
</loc>
<sum_daily_nb_uniq_visitors>2</sum_daily_nb_uniq_visitors>
</row>
<row>
<label>Leonding</label>
<nb_visits>1</nb_visits>
<nb_actions>17</nb_actions>
<max_actions>17</max_actions>
<sum_visit_length>721</sum_visit_length>
<bounce_count>0</bounce_count>
<nb_visits_converted>1</nb_visits_converted>
<loc>
<lat>48.2667</lat>
<lon>14.2500</lon>
</loc>
<sum_daily_nb_uniq_visitors>1</sum_daily_nb_uniq_visitors>
</row>
as you can see, loc data of Leonding is correct, but data of Vienna isn't.
Has anybody an idea why?
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
for people with limited memory you can replace
$this->geoIpDb = geoip_open($geoIPDataFile, GEOIP_MEMORY_CACHE);
into
$this->geoIpDb = geoip_open($geoIPDataFile, GEOIP_STANDARD);
in GeoIP.php
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Replying to matt:
Replying to mvanlaar:
Is it possible in future version also build a version that can lookup againt a mysql table with the data from citylite?? The file version is very slow under load. And allowing more executing time isn't (imho) a solution.
for more performance the best solution is to install the Mod GEOIP on your apache server. geoip lookups will be lightning fast!
I tested this with the MySQL version of the maxmind database (!http://ipinfodb.com/ip_database.php) and modified the plugin to perform a mysql lookup instead of the binary database and ran the update script several times. A lookup via MySQL takes about 25% longer than the current version and the mysql tables take up about 300 MB. So it's no benefit whatsoever.
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Is this plugin still in development? I would like to use the data from this plugin to show the visitors on Google Maps (or another map service)...
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mattab
commented on April 28, 2024
DaSilva, you are welcome to contribute to the plugin. Ideally, you would post a screenshot and a link to your example piwik with the plugin installed so we can have a look and provide Feedback. When your work is done, we can consider including it in the GeoIp plugin.
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Replying to thibaut:
So if anybody has the possibility to craft a GeoIP version (or a working fix) that would run with 0.5.4 I (as many others I'm sure) would greatly appreciate !
I don't know what your problem is, but I have been using this plugins for months, and it is still working with 0.5.4 on my server.
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
I have all the time the "unknown" problem and sometimes "UserCountry_country_--" - but most of the time the country-detection works fine.
I tried everything :(
Same with o.5.1 - so I installad a complete new 0.5.4 with the actual GeoIP from this page and downloaded a new database-file. I followed the instruction one by one. I am sure everything is in the right directory.
Has someone some steps I could try?
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Replying to anamela:
Now I am using (@theodorius123 that should work for you, too!):
if(!defined('PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH')) { define('PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH', '../../..'); } if(!defined('PIWIK_USER_PATH')) { define('PIWIK_USER_PATH', '../../..'); }Then running the script from the command line SHOULD FUNCTION.
yes! Thank you! :)
mmh. this is not realy working for me.
857 rows to process in piwik2_log_visit...
Fatal error: error traversing database - perhaps it is corrupt? in /users/theo/www/piwik/plugins/GeoIP/libs/geoip.inc on line 422
and instead of cities i see all the time "Unknown"
:-(
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
After installing everything except this step "For more performance, it is recommanded to install the module apache mod_geoip. Configure your Apache according to:" piwik tracks nothing anymore. After deactivation everythings works fine.
I changed all my previous reports. I've changed the PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH to my local path in the geoipUpdateRows.php. After that change i could update all my old reports and it works fine. But the problem now is that I couldn't track any new visitor.
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
php 5.2 + mysql 5.0.X SLES 10.3 distribution.
GeoIP v0.12, piwik 0.5.4
GeoIP.php: updateExistingVisitsWithGeoIpData does not work for me. It only updates one record per each block on limit. Pretty much "while ( $row = $stmt->fetch() )" works for one record only.
Changed above line 346 "while ( $row = $stmt->fetch() )" to these two lines.
$allRows = $stmt->fetchAll();
foreach ($allRows as $row)
works fine after the change.
By the way, using geoipUpdateRows.php script from command line only.
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Is it possible that in the archived data the latitude and longitude will be stored in the database. Would like to use this for a maps plugin.
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mattab
commented on April 28, 2024
In Piwik 0.6, there is a backward incompatible API change in the archiving code.
All GeoIP users will need to upgrade to the latest GeoIP pluginafter they upgrade Piwik to 0.6. Piwik will automatically disable the GeoIP plugin during the upgrade to 0.6.
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Hi, I have recently installed the latest version of Piwik .5.5 and it all works fine. I then installed Geoip and again it worked except I get the following problems...
Country (GeoIP)
UserCountry_country_ 218
and
Continent (GeoIP)
UserCountry_continent_ 218
I have looked through this thread and do not see a solution? Is there one and if so what can be done?
regards,
Blair
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Hi,
I developed some kind of patch to store regions more than city (I find it more practice).
You can find it here : Region display patch. Explanation in french (sorry) here : Region display explanations.
Please feel free to tell me if you see something wrong in this patch.
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Replying to e.marguin:
Hi,
I developed some kind of patch to store regions more than city (I find it more practice).
You can find it here : Region display patch. Explanation in french (sorry) here : Region display explanations.Please feel free to tell me if you see something wrong in this patch.
Hello,its possible to find any English version of this?
Also it's possible to redirect users from mobile/smart phones to a different page?
THanks,
Mike
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
ok i'll just try to translate here the main things (i'm sorry by advance for my poor english)...
The geoip module gives us information about the city of visitors. But often we do not know this city because it's too small. That's why I prefer to display regions, like in the other web analyzers tools.
The patch give upper stores the region name in db instead of the city name.
To install it, just extract it into the plugin/GeoIP/ folder.
It do not update old datas. It's technically possible but I didn't need it. If anyone really wants me to write this script, I can.
Eric
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Replying to e.marguin:
ok i'll just try to translate here the main things (i'm sorry by advance for my poor english)...
The geoip module gives us information about the city of visitors. But often we do not know this city because it's too small. That's why I prefer to display regions, like in the other web analyzers tools.
The patch give upper stores the region name in db instead of the city name.
To install it, just extract it into the plugin/GeoIP/ folder.
It do not update old datas. It's technically possible but I didn't need it. If anyone really wants me to write this script, I can.Eric
ok,thank you ERIC.
I will give it a try.
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mattab
commented on April 28, 2024
mike3050, please don't add links to your websites in the trac comments, thank you.
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Hi,
I'm happily (== both from app&sys perspectives) running Piwik 0.6.1 + GeoIP using the DB file w/o mod_geoip. Found a minor (at this time) issue: Country numbers don't match with Continent numbers for Europe, where the sum is always minor than the number obtained by summing all the single countries, see below. I'm wondering if this is a bug in the code or in the lookup table.
|| Country (GeoIP) ||||
|| Country || Unique visitors ||
||Italy || 997 ||
||Unknown || 66 ||
||United States || 5 ||
||Ireland || 3 ||
||Great Britain || 3 ||
||Poland || 2 ||
||Bulgaria || 1 ||
||Russia || 1 ||
||Switzerland || 1 ||
||Germany || 1 ||
|| Continent (GeoIP) ||||
|| Continent || Unique visitors ||
||Europe || 959 ||
||Unknown || 66 ||
||North America || 5 ||
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Replying to snowdiver:
I experience the problem, that the GeoIP data is always saved as "unknown" in the piwik_log_visit table without any city labels, latitude etc.
I installed the plugin according to your instructions above. GeoIP ver 0.13, piwik ver 0.6.1 GeoIPCity (May 2010)
Is there any hint to fix this problem?
Thanks
EDIT: Problem solved. The apache module is installed on my server, but doesn't provide enough geo-information. Switching the module-search off fixed this problem!
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Replying to snowdiver:
EDIT: Problem solved. The apache module is installed on my server, but doesn't provide enough geo-information. Switching the module-search off fixed this problem!
sorry, i am not that fit with all these server, php, etc stuff. i am using piwik and geoip and have the same "unknown" problem. but i dont have an own server, my homepage is on a freehoster-server (bplaced.net). is it possible to do what you did when i am using a free-hoster??
thanks!
theo
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Replying to theodorius123:
Replying to snowdiver:
EDIT: Problem solved. The apache module is installed on my server, but doesn't provide enough geo-information. Switching the module-search off fixed this problem!
sorry, i am not that fit with all these server, php, etc stuff. i am using piwik and geoip and have the same "unknown" problem. but i dont have an own server, my homepage is on a freehoster-server (bplaced.net). is it possible to do what you did when i am using a free-hoster??
thanks!
theo
My homepage is also hosted on bplaced.net servers, so we met the same problem. It is just a small modification of the GeoIP.php file. Just remove or comment lines 230-234 to force the plugin to use the GeoLiteCity.dat file instead of the Apache Module, which in the bplaced.net case does not provide information about the city of a visitor.
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
The most frequent "city" in my stats is "unknown". Any suggestion for a better geoip database? I'm concerned only with Brazil, FWIW.
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mattab
commented on April 28, 2024
All users experimenting issues with the geoipUpdateRows.php script, we have fixed a few bugs reported by users in this thread. Check out the new GeoIP 0.14 version.
If you still have issues, please report here, we'll do our best to fix it.
Users that are seeing a lot of 'unknown' countries and cities, this is probably due to the low coverage of the Free IP to country database provided by MaxMind. If anyone knows a better DB, let us know! You can alternatively buy the MaxMind pro DB, but I haven't tested how accurate this DB is.
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
How do I know if a database is in the file format for GeoIP?
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
I seem to have some problem with the geoipUpdateRows.php script. What I can see, nothing happens when I run the script, all older data is just NULL, newer data from the same IP is however marked correctly.
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
btw:
could it be that the geo-ip colums stay in the db after plugin deactivation?
Is this bahavior wanted?
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mikeSimonson
commented on April 28, 2024
With the last version, i still get this error.
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
I'm trying to run the latest version of this plugin on Piwik 0.9 and all I seem to be getting is UserCountry_country_ as Blair noted in Comment #101. Has anyone found a solution for this?
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
I had a problem of exit without error and no log of my visits, i followed this:
Replying to marcello.ceschia:
for people with limited memory you can replace
$this->geoIpDb = geoip_open($geoIPDataFile, GEOIP_MEMORY_CACHE);into
$this->geoIpDb = geoip_open($geoIPDataFile, GEOIP_STANDARD);in GeoIP.php
and it worked, on a dedicated server with 2Go of ram ...
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mattab
commented on April 28, 2024
From forum post GeoIP just show true country in "Locations & Provider" and it doesn't show true country in "Visitor Log", "world map" and "Live Visitors!"
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
If the GeoIP plugin writes to "the existing country & continent columns", then what should it write when the country is unknown? In my experience (YMMV) that's the second most frequent "country". The IP is already stored by Piwik, so if the geolocations are to be stored by GeoIP, each database should have its own columns in the database. Each database has its own limitation, and mixing information from more than one database in a single column would impair the user from using the correct precautions.
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robocoder
commented on April 28, 2024
As you say, each database has its limitations. Each also has different operating characteristics (e.g., system requirements, memory requirement, disk space requierments, and lookup time). I proposed that users be able to pick and choose which one to use, if any.
Users generally expect/assume the existing country & continent columns to be geolocated. (We have a FAQ to explain why it isn't.) What we can do is that when the country/continent is unknown, the plugin fallback to what we do now when GeoIP isn't installed/activated, i.e., guess the country from the Accept-Language header; and if that fails, then write 'xx'.
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
I agree that the existing country & continent columns should be geolocated when possible, with a fallback to the no-plugin behavior on "unknown" results. Would it be possible to fall back to the actual "faux geolocation" code that populates those columns now so there isn't code duplication in the plugin?
I can't think of a case where this would worsen the data in the existing columns. It's going to be either an improvement (when there is GeoIP data for the IP, which "outranks" a guess from the language header) or no change (when there is fallback to the language header code).
I'd also be interested to know if the paid version of the GeoIP database cuts down significantly on the number of unknowns. I do get valuable information from the 30% or so of my traffic that shows up in GeoIP as "unknown" - since I know the GeoIP database coverage of USA addresses is very high, I can reasonably assume that most of that traffic is from outside the US. It does look like the language-header method guesses USA for a lot of non-US addresses.. and for all my traffic from India.
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Turned out to be a very simple patch. I think this is low risk - it leaves location_country alone unless GeoIP knows what the country is. Ran it against the historical visits on my end and the Core and GeoIP "Visitor Countries" widgets are now much closer. No "unknowns" showed up in the Core widget, but India, which had been completely absent, is there now. (Pretty much everyone in India has their browser language set to English/US, apparently..)
I would appreciate feedback/review, this is my first submitted Piwik patch.
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lehrer
commented on April 28, 2024
Hi,
I am using piwik 1.0.
I get the following error (same as reported above a few times):
UserCountry_country_
How can I visualize the countries and continetns instead of UserCountry_country_ and UserCountry_continent_ respectively?
GL
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
I have the same error
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
I've been using this plugin for two weeks. With American cities, it would be help me to display them as "Springfield, MA" rather than just "Springfield". Often the city name won't mean much to me on its own but the state will.
(Showing postal abbrevations for states and provinces in other countries would be welcome too, but I wouldn't be a good test user for that.)
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
GeoIP is activated but only shows the correct country entered visitors> location.
But in the plugins UserCountry, UserCountryMap, live, continents, are the wrong country and continent.
I am from Ecuador South America continent, Spanish, shows such as Spain, mainland Europe Spanish.
I searched for information but can not find clear and specific answer to this problem.
How I can fix it?
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
If I'm correct in Piwik demo is not activated or installed GeoIP, however UserCountryMap plugin register, live, UserCountry, etc, Ecuador South America visits.
What I can do to register the countries and continents as they recorded a demo of Piwik?
Esteban
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robocoder
commented on April 28, 2024
Estaban: download and install GeoIP, and apply the patch from Ian in comment:142
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Replying to vipsoft:
Estaban: download and install GeoIP, and apply the patch from Ian in comment:142
Replying to ian:
Turned out to be a very simple patch. I think this is low risk - it leaves location_country alone unless GeoIP knows what the country is. Ran it against the historical visits on my end and the Core and GeoIP "Visitor Countries" widgets are now much closer. No "unknowns" showed up in the Core widget, but India, which had been completely absent, is there now. (Pretty much everyone in India has their browser language set to English/US, apparently..)
I would appreciate feedback/review, this is my first submitted Piwik patch.
Excellent! problem solved.
Thanks
But not as Piwik demo is not on the GeoIP plugin (no I'm not mistaken) yet recorded Ecuador South America
Why?
Esteban
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robocoder
commented on April 28, 2024
Country-to-continent assignment is via a lookup table. In Piwik 1.0, Central America is lumped in with South America.
For Piwik 1.1, we're using the Maxmind GeoIP mapping with the exception of Central America (which they lump in with North America). We've added Antarctica and Central America as separate continental regions.
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lehrer
commented on April 28, 2024
Replying to vipsoft:
Estaban: download and install GeoIP, and apply the patch from Ian in comment:142
Hi,
How do I apply the patch?
I'm not used to work with diff files.
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Replying to poudro:
By applying the patch 'patch_GeoIP_0.7_google_map_link' I just uploaded to the original tree it adds links to google maps with the location of cities in the visitor countries dropdown...
hi! google-map-links are working, unfortunately piwik seems to accumulate the longitude and altitude numbers, so the links of cities with more than one visitors are pointing to nirvana...
do you have an idea what i have to change in the code to correct this?
thx!
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
as you can see, loc data of Leonding is correct, but data of Vienna isn't.
Has anybody an idea why?
piwik is accumulating the longitude and altitude by archieving. but o don't know what i have to change...
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Hi,
When the Geoip is installed as a PECL extension on your server the plugin doesn't work. The included geoip library redefines functions that are already defined by the PECL extension.
I made a patch which makes the plugin use PECL extension when available instead of including the geoip library.
@see UsePeclExtension.patch
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Followed the instruction and installed plugin GeoIP. Also downloaded the lite .dat file.
Still all visitors are marked to come from the US.
Visitors -> Locations & Providers show no data for this report for both Country and Continent.
How do I check whether GeoIP plugin is configured correctly? It is enabled.
Much thanks!
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
BTW, the time log of visitors visiting the site is correct under Vistors -> Visitor Log.
Thanks again!
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
4 hours later the country automagically becomes 7 = unknown, 2 = asia, 1 = US. As I'm in Hong Kong, at least it now shows something other than US.
Does anyone know how long it takes for data to become available for reporting?
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Anyone please?
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mattab
commented on April 28, 2024
Note: before including GeoIP in trunk, GeoIP should be modified so that it records the new country and continent in place of the default one (columns location_*) , rather than in new columns location_geoip_ in the log_visit table.
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Thanks Matt for the pointer.
How should I go about making these changes?
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
I patched GeoIP.php based on this file GeoIP-set-location_country.diff, and now there is no logging of access.
Phew....
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robocoder
commented on April 28, 2024
If this is a candidate for trunk, I advise renaming it to Geolocation, since "GeoIP" is a trademark. Also, by using a generic, vendor-neutral name, we would be able to add adapters for other geolocation methods/services/products.
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mattab
commented on April 28, 2024
I think GeoIP should move to core. This will improve user experience and allow for better Piwik features in the future, such as mapping cities and regions in the world map.
I created a ticket with proposed ideas: #1823
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
I tried applying the patch http://issues.piwik.org/attachments/5465/GeoIP-set-location_country.diff but could not get it done.
I used Netbeans before to patch my drupal files but this one seems to have a different file format. Where can I find anything on how to patch under windows?
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
I got it done, seems netbeans can not read that patch format and i found GNUWin worked
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
I get nearly only unknown users after downloading the version off the description and patching it (I as well run the update php and dropped the tables).
Where do I find the latest version and do I still need toapply the patch ian posted?
This site is pretty confusing to new users. I can find nowhere to get the versions listed.
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Or is there a solution to this
UserCountry_country_
UserCountry_continent_
issue I missed??????
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
I tried running the script from borwser and command line now. Nothing. ALL of my first user do show up under these lables. I read somewhere above they can not be updated? But what does the script then? If I understand it right The script should query the old data and update the database?! Any help or removing of my confusion would be appreciated :D
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
What I need to mention:
I did patch before I used GeoIP the first time but I can remember at the second time I ran the script it got 1 lower. I somewhere above read the loop before did only one update - So may there possibly still be a problem?
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
if I might add to this. The maxmind db gives a city lookup. This does not work how people think it will. Blocks of IP numbers are sold to to service providers who resell to end users. However, the IP issuing authority assign the city of the ISP address to all the IP numbers. At least that is how it works in the UK. Things may vary in different countries and ISPs don't reallocate city when they sell dedicated IP numbers to end users. The result is that city lookup generally only gives the city of the ISP and not where the visitor is visting from. The ISP can be anywhere in the country and hundreds of miles from where the visitor is based. In other words, city lookup is useless except for giving the location of ISPs. This also means that lat long is useless too since it seems to be based on city lookup. When IPV6 is rolled out and if, and only if, ISPs allocate city to users when they purchase a fixed IP then city lookup may become useful. But many ISPs still use dynamically allocated IPs so it wouldn't work in that case either. In short the concept of providing city and/or lat/long of vistors is fundamentlly flawed.
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Test
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
When new visitors appear on the LiveVisitors screen, they initially have the "wrong" flag as with the standard identification by browser settings. Only overnight does GeoIP override the IDs with its correct geodata.
How can I change the interval so that the correct identification would be instant or at least happen faster? Great plugin btw.
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
UserCountry_country_
UserCountry_continent_
Is there any solution for this?
Thanks, j
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Replying to tlitody:
if I might add to this. The maxmind db gives a city lookup. This does not work how people think it will. Blocks of IP numbers are sold to to service providers who resell to end users. However, the IP issuing authority assign the city of the ISP address to all the IP numbers. At least that is how it works in the UK. Things may vary in different countries (...)
There is a page on the MaxMind website with a list of the accuracy at country and city level for the GeoLite City database. For the UK they report quite a low accuracy indeed (56% within 25 miles of true location), but for many other countries they do report fairly accurate values (e.g. for the US they report 78%).
https://www.maxmind.com/app/geolite_city_accuracy
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mattab
commented on April 28, 2024
Published the new GeoIP version for Piwik 1.2 and more.
If you upgrade to Piwik 1.2, you can also apply the following patch rather than downloading the new plugin:
136c136
< count(distinct visitor_idcookie) as nb_uniq_visitors,
---
> count(distinct idvisitor) as nb_uniq_visitors,
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< $query = $archiveProcessing->queryConversionsBySegment("location_geoip_continent,location_geoip_country,location_geoip_city");
---
> $query = $archiveProcessing->queryConversionsByDimension("location_geoip_continent,location_geoip_country,location_geoip_city");
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
I am getting an error message when I try to run the update script. I don't know enough php to figure this out, but I'm assuming paths have something to do with it.
$ php /home/me/website.com/piwik/plugins/GeoIP/misc/geoipUpdateRows.php
Warning: require_once(../../../core/testMinimumPhpVersion.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/me/website/piwik/plugins/GeoIP/misc/geoipUpdateRows.php on line 23
Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '../../../core/testMinimumPhpVersion.php' (include_path='../../../core:../../../libs:../../../plugins') in /home/me/website/piwik/plugins/GeoIP/misc/geoipUpdateRows.php on line 23
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robocoder
commented on April 28, 2024
kip: the script expects to be run from within the same folder
cd /home/me/website.com/piwik/plugins/GeoIP/misc
php geoipUpdateRows.php
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Just installed the new version -- thanks for the fix.
While you're updating, there might be an easy change to make U.S. data a lot more intelligible. Given how hard it is to recognize city names, or distinguish the same city name in multiple states, the two-letter state abbreviations are super-useful:
Will you consider displaying the states for U.S. cities -- e.g. "Springfield, MA" instead of "Springfield"?
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Thanks for piwik 1.2 and this update. Do I have to apply the files in the Updates directory in any way? (07.php, 09.php)?
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
I've added " (GeoIP)" to my local en.php and de.php for 'GeoIP_WidgetContinents' and 'GeoIP_WidgetCountries', so that I can distinguish between the normal and the GeoIP widgets. I suggest doing this officially as well. I know that in the forums there have been several requests about GeoIP working at all because people couldn't see a difference.
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
One question: I installed the plugin and followed the instructions. GeoIP widget is also shown in piwik. But somehow it doesn't seem to work properly. Piwik shows my IP (79.205.251.97) as "United States" based on my browser locale (which is "en_US").
When I use the geoiplookup command line tool using the same database file "GeoLiteCity.dat" it shows the correct:
$ geoiplookup -f GeoLiteCity.dat 79.205.251.97
GeoIP City Edition, Rev 1: DE, 16, Berlin, N/A, 52.516701, 13.400000, 0, 0
Did piwik cache the result somehow? Should I worry?
Grateful for any suggestions...
buzz
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robocoder
commented on April 28, 2024
buzz: for performance, geolocation only happens on the first page of a new visit. You either have to wait out the session timeout, or clear your cookies to be treated as a new visitor.
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
i downloaded the new zip file and have the following errors
Fatal error: Call to a member function filter() on a non-object in /homepages/39/d319160918/htdocs/i-sitekohchang/analytics/piwik/core/ViewDataTable/HtmlTable/AllColumns.php on line 52
SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'visitor_idcookie' in 'field list'
off topic,,, this page (this track ticket) takes ages to load, a lot of comments for 1 page, can you split out the old comments on to a page 2/3..? a log in on the bottom of the page would also be nice :)
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Replying to jekko:
i downloaded the new zip file and have the following (errors on the dashboard not when running geoipUpdateRows.php)
Fatal error: Call to a member function filter() on a non-object in /homepages/39/d319160918/htdocs/i-sitekohchang/analytics/piwik/core/ViewDataTable/HtmlTable/AllColumns.php on line 52
SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'visitor_idcookie' in 'field list'
off topic,,, this page (this track ticket) takes ages to load, a lot of comments for 1 page, can you split out the old comments on to a page 2/3..? a log in on the bottom of the page would also be nice :)
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Still got error even i Use the latest GeoIP.2.zip (20.2 KB) for Piwik 1.3
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
In order to use GeoIP within Piwik 1.3 I had to add 'require_once('ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_PIWIK/libs/upgradephp/upgrade.php');" to core/Cookie.php and alter line 373 of core/Config.php, where I changed '_parse_ini_file' to 'parse_ini_file'. This is somehow not the intended behaviour, I guess. A bug?
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robocoder
commented on April 28, 2024
fixed in the updated GeoIP.zip package; bumped the version to 0.15
re: page load time of this trac ticket -- this ticket will be closed as soon as we move this plugin into the core distribution; see #1823
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robocoder
commented on April 28, 2024
Sorry, repackaged.
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Replying to vipsoft:
Sorry, repackaged.
oh dear!
Fatal error: error traversing database - perhaps it is corrupt? in example.com/analytics/piwik/plugins/GeoIP/libs/geoip.inc on line 422
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Replying to jekko:
Replying to vipsoft:
Sorry, repackaged.
oh dear!
Fatal error: error traversing database - perhaps it is corrupt? in example.com/analytics/piwik/plugins/GeoIP/libs/geoip.inc on line 422
ah ok! the GeoLiteCity.dat did not move across.
now its ok but we don't have enough php memory to run it (host will not increase the php memory)
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Replying to jekko:
Replying to jekko:
Replying to vipsoft:
Sorry, repackaged.
oh dear!
Fatal error: error traversing database - perhaps it is corrupt? in example.com/analytics/piwik/plugins/GeoIP/libs/geoip.inc on line 422
ah ok! the GeoLiteCity.dat did not move across.
now its ok but we don't have enough php memory to run it (host will not increase the php memory)
its trying to allocate 27 meg, that seems a lot
Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 5242880) (tried to allocate 27629546 bytes)
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robocoder
commented on April 28, 2024
Yes, it tries to load the geo database into memory. This is Maxmind's library so it is "by design".
The new geolocation plugin will offer more choices, esp for resource constrained environments.
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Sorry, can't find information on this anywhere.
I had GeoIP working, updated Piwik to 1.2
and GeoIP hasn't worked since.
Tried to install again with most recent GeoIP.zip but keep getting the error
"Unable to load plugin 'GeoIP' because 'var/www/info/piwik/plugins/GeoIP/GeoIP.php' couldn't be found. You can manually uninstall the plugin by removing the line Plugins[] = GeoIP from the Piwik config file."
In piwik config.php.ini the line Plugins[= "GeoIP" has been removed but PluginsInstalled = "GeoIP" remains. (removing it didn't help either)
Any tips/things I should read?
Any help much appreciated
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robocoder
commented on April 28, 2024
Remove references to GeoIP from your config.ini.php.
In your plugins/ folder, either remove the GeoIP folder, or re-upload the contents. (note: filenames may be case
sensitive)
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anonymous-matomo-user
commented on April 28, 2024
Beautiful, thanks very much.
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svogt
commented on April 28, 2024
Installed GeoIP v15 into a Piwik 1.3 and the plugin seems to be working (I had a look into the new widget and they show the cities correctly). What currently isn't working is the Visitor-WorldMap which I thought should show the new stats as well. Am I missing something?
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robocoder
commented on April 28, 2024
SaschaVogt: that's because we haven't changed the GeoIP plugin to overwrite the standard columns
The GeoIP plugin is in maintenance mode as I'm currently working on its replacement in #1823.
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