Symlink Geolitecity.dat From The Control Panel

[interfasys]

Quite a few apps rely on GeoIP and it's not uncommon to have it installed in /usr/local for all apps to use.

 

Since the control panel offers to turn it on, maybe it could also have a field where we could paste the path to GeoLiteCity.dat

[Paul]

In what environments is it common for the geoip database to be in a shared location? Just curious/trying to gauge how many people would find it beneficial, but I think it's a good feature request.

[interfasys]

I wasn't thinking of a specific environment, as anybody can install the libs in a centralised location for all apps to use, but FreeBSD, via ports, does put the main database in /usr/local and updates it via cron.

[Timothy]

As another FreeBSD user +1.

 

I surprised it's not more common to have a central place for GeoIP data since so many web applications are using it now.