

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maxmind/ppa Open terminal and run the following commands to download and install the prerequisites for GeoIP module. As mentioned earlier, we will download & compile NGINX from source, along with GeoIP, instead of installing it separately. Here are the steps to install NGINX with GeoIP module. In this article, we will look at how to install NGINX with GeoIP module. It cannot be added once NGINX is installed. However, you need to compile GeoIP module at the time of NGINX installation.

GeoIP module allows you to perform geo-based operations in NGINX such as blocking IPs from specific locations or redirect visitors by country.
