Hi, yes it's nice and easy to view the fromCountryId. Just enter this in your MetaMod:

echo "I think your country is: $fromCountryId<br>";
echo "here are the server variables: <pre>" . print_r($_SERVER) . "</pre>";

Take a look at the server variables that are there. One of them will contain your actual IP address and it's possible that some of the others contain the IP address of your new server / proxy system at your host. Could you post the results of this back on here again, noting which one actually contains your real client IP address, and I'll check to see if MetaMod is interpreting these correctly. Just today I came across a new hosting system that was messing up IP detection in Chameleon (which uses the same code as MetaMod) so it's possible yours is a similar situation.

Cheers,
Stephen

oops I got that a bit wrong:

echo "I think your country is: $fromCountryId<br>";
echo "here are the server variables: <pre>";
print_r($_SERVER);
echo "</pre>";

Also if you have found another GeoIP system that gives the correct result, it's possible that your GeoIP.dat file is out of date - I would suggest re-downloading and installing it and trying again.

Ok this is getting a bit confusing!

1 - have you installed a recent copy of GeoIP.dat into a folder called geoip in the root of your web folder?
Note that you have to uncompress the file you download from http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geo … oIP.dat.gz don't just rename it.

2 - copy and paste the code from the forum directly from the web (not from any e-mail notification you received about the post).

echo "I think your country is: $fromCountryId<br>";
echo "here are the server variables: <pre>";
print_r($_SERVER);
echo "</pre>";

3 - ensure that in the MetaMod you have "Enable GeoIP/GeoCity" set to "GeoIP Country (free or commercial)"

4 - ensure the MetaMod is published, set to "all pages" (or a selection of pages that will actually display) and set to a valid module position. Otherwise you definitely won't see anything appear!

5 - turn on "advanced debug" mode in the MetaMod just to hep to force it to display something, then test again from front-end

6 - if you're still not seeing anything appear, remove all the PHP from the code box and test again. If you still don't see any output then you haven't assigned the module correctly.

Let me know how you get on with that. We're just getting the obvious stuff out of the way first.

Hi,

thanks for that info - perfect.

What is happening is that your web server is doing something non-standard with the way it proxies the web request from the client.  The HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR header is supposed to identify the client's IP address but your proxy is instead using it to put the Proxy's IP address. Therefore MetaMod is picking up the wrong IP address - the address of the proxy instead of the IP address of the client. The client's IP address is instead appearing in a new non-standard header HTTP_X_REAL_IP. This is the second such case I have seen recently, though using a different header entirely. I don't know why people create new headers when the standard ones would work perfectly well!

I will need to issue an update to MetaMod that detects these 2 new headers. Would Monday be ok for you for the new version?

Thanks,
Stephen

Hi Nick - all released and ready to go :-) Please try out MetaMod 3.24 and let me know how you get on.