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27-Jan-16 10:24:50

Metamod is random at interpreting the correct GeoIP location

Hi,
Please assist.
The Metamod module seems to be random at interpreting the correct GeoIP location. The mod will display (or not display) different pages seemingly at random.
Refreshing the Joomla cache seems to change on which pages the mod displayes or not.

1. The latest version of GeoIP.dat is installed.
2. The output from the code attached with "advanced debug" enabled.
3. Have "GeoIP/GeoCity" enabled and set to "GeoIP Country (free or commercial)"
4. Set to "all pages"
5. website: www.datarecovery.co.za
6. Link to video with a demo of the issue: https://www.datarecovery.co.za/downloads/Metamod not displaying on all pages.mp4

Current installation:
MetaMod v3.24, 2015-11-02
MetaMod Pro plugin v3.24, 2015-11-02 is installed and enabled.
Joomla! 3.4.8 Stable [ Ember ] 24-December-2015 19:30 GMT

Output

Array
(
[PATH] => /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
[PHPRC] => /home6/ServerPath/public_html/:/usr/php/56/etc/
[PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN] => 0
[ORIG_SCRIPT_NAME] => /cgi-sys/fcgid-scripts/fcgiwrapper56
[ORIG_PATH_TRANSLATED] => /home6/ServerPath/public_html/MyWebSite.co.za/index.php
[ORIG_PATH_INFO] => /index.php
[ORIG_SCRIPT_FILENAME] => /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/fcgid-scripts/fcgiwrapper56
[HTTP_CONNECTION] => close
[SCRIPT_NAME] => /index.php
[REQUEST_URI] => /MyWebpage.html
[QUERY_STRING] =>
[REQUEST_METHOD] => GET
[SERVER_PROTOCOL] => HTTP/1.0
[GATEWAY_INTERFACE] => CGI/1.1
[REDIRECT_URL] => /index.php
[REMOTE_PORT] => 42762
[SCRIPT_FILENAME] => /home6/ServerPath/public_html/MyWebSite.co.za/index.php
[SERVER_ADMIN] => emailaddress.com
[DOCUMENT_ROOT] => /home6/ServerPath/public_html/MyWebSite.co.za
[REMOTE_ADDR] => 174.137.138.84
[SERVER_PORT] => 443
[SERVER_ADDR] => 69.89.20.25
[SERVER_NAME] => www.MyWebSite.co.za
[SERVER_SOFTWARE] => Apache
[SERVER_SIGNATURE] =>
Apache Server at www.MyWebSite.co.za Port 443

[HTTP_COOKIE] => 96379234dbee2501b0fe52164d582931=1s3h68v1np2mqpe1s2j2ok6eg0
[HTTP_REFERER] => https://www.MyWebSite.co.za/MyWebPages/ … -plan.html
[HTTP_ACCEPT] => text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
[HTTP_USER_AGENT] => Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.111 Safari/537.36
[HTTP_HOST] => www.MyWebSite.co.za
[SSL_TLS_SNI] => www.MyWebSite.co.za
[HTTPS] => on
[MAGICK_THREAD_LIMIT] => 1
[UNIQUE_ID] => VqiWu0KT9OsAAFbNJi0AAAEL
[REDIRECT_STATUS] => 200
[REDIRECT_HANDLER] => fcgidbeta-script
[REDIRECT_SSL_TLS_SNI] => www.MyWebSite.co.za
[REDIRECT_HTTPS] => on
[REDIRECT_MAGICK_THREAD_LIMIT] => 1
[REDIRECT_HTTP_AUTHORIZATION] =>
[REDIRECT_UNIQUE_ID] => VqiWu0KT9OsAAFbNJi0AAAEL
[REDIRECT_REDIRECT_STATUS] => 200
[REDIRECT_REDIRECT_SSL_TLS_SNI] => www.MyWebSite.co.za
[REDIRECT_REDIRECT_HTTPS] => on
[REDIRECT_REDIRECT_MAGICK_THREAD_LIMIT] => 1
[REDIRECT_REDIRECT_HTTP_AUTHORIZATION] =>
[REDIRECT_REDIRECT_UNIQUE_ID] => VqiWu0KT9OsAAFbNJi0AAAEL
[FCGI_ROLE] => RESPONDER
[PHP_SELF] => /index.php
[REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT] => 1453889211.5877
[REQUEST_TIME] => 1453889211
)

Thank you and regards

tec: Beginner Modder; 2 Posts

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27-Jan-16 10:39:03

Re: Metamod is random at interpreting the correct GeoIP location

Disabling all forms of cache in Joomla seems to solve the problem - Is there a solution to still use Joomla cache and Metamod?

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28-Jan-16 07:20:30

Re: Metamod is random at interpreting the correct GeoIP location

Hi tec,

yes, unfortunately the Joomla cache (system cache plugin) is a very blunt instrument. It caches just 1 copy of any given page for its exact URL. When you access that same page from different countries, MetaMod is changing the content of the page, and of course only 1 of those gets cached once the previous cache runs out.

In the past I have modified a version of JotCache to cache a version of each page *per country and URL combination* which solved the particular issue I was having, similar to yours. But even that approach has its downfalls as it massively increases the size of the cache, and required a major rewrite of the cache system. (and that was on Joomla 1.5).

You might be able to get away with turning off the system cache plugin but still using some of the other caching e.g. module caching, but ensure that the MetaMod modules have cache disabled. That would still give you some benefit.

Hope that helps,
Stephen

Stephen Brandon
MetaMod / Chameleon developer
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