NAME#

GeoIP.conf - Configuration file for geoipupdate

SYNOPSIS#

This file allows you to configure your geoipupdate program to download GeoIP and GeoLite databases.

DESCRIPTION#

The file consists of one setting per line. Lines starting with # are comments and will not be processed. All setting keywords are case sensitive.

Required settings:#

AccountID: Your MaxMind account ID. This was formerly known as UserId. This can be overridden at run time by either the GEOIPUPDATE_ACCOUNT_ID or the GEOIPUPDATE_ACCOUNT_ID_FILE environment variables.
LicenseKey: Your case-sensitive MaxMind license key. This can be overridden at run time by either the GEOIPUPDATE_LICENSE_KEY or GEOIPUPDATE_LICENSE_KEY_FILE environment variables.
EditionIDs: List of space-separated database edition IDs. Edition IDs may consist of letters, digits, and dashes. For example, GeoIP2-City would download the GeoIP City database (GeoIP2-City). This can be overridden at run time by the GEOIPUPDATE_EDITION_IDS environment variable. Note: this was formerly called ProductIds.

Optional settings:#

DatabaseDirectory: The directory to store the database files. If not set, the default is DATADIR. This can be overridden at run time by the GEOIPUPDATE_DB_DIR environment variable or the -d command line argument.
Host: The host name of the server to use. The default is https://updates.maxmind.com. This can be overridden at run time by the GEOIPUPDATE_HOST environment variable.
Proxy: The proxy host name or IP address. You may optionally specify a port number, e.g., 127.0.0.1:8888. If no port number is specified, 1080 will be used. This can be overridden at run time by the GEOIPUPDATE_PROXY environment variable.
ProxyUserPassword: The proxy user name and password, separated by a colon. For instance, username:password. This can be overridden at run time by the GEOIPUPDATE_PROXY_USER_PASSWORD environment variable.
PreserveFileTimes: Whether to preserve modification times of files downloaded from the server. This option is either 0 or 1. The default is 0. This can be overridden at run time by the GEOIPUPDATE_PRESERVE_FILE_TIMES environment variable.
LockFile: The lock file to use. This ensures only one geoipupdate process can run at a time. Note: Once created, this lockfile is not removed from the filesystem. The default is .geoipupdate.lock under the DatabaseDirectory. This can be overridden at run time by the GEOIPUPDATE_LOCK_FILE environment variable.
RetryFor: The amount of time to retry for when errors during HTTP transactions are encountered. It can be specified as a (possibly fractional) decimal number followed by a unit suffix. Valid time units are ns, us (or µs), ms, s, m, h. The default is 5m (5 minutes). This can be overridden at run time by the GEOIPUPDATE_RETRY_FOR environment variable.
Parallelism: The maximum number of parallel database downloads. The default is 1, which means that databases will be downloaded sequentially. This can be overridden at run time by the GEOIPUPDATE_PARALLELISM environment variable or the --parallelism command line argument.

Deprecated settings:#

The following are deprecated and will be ignored if present:

Protocol

SkipPeerVerification