Geo Locate Visitors (On-Premise)

Geolocation is the process of determining where an IP address is geographically located. Matomo offers various methods to determine your visitors’ location. It is recommended to configure Matomo to use the geolocation database to more accurately determine the locations of visitors.

 

Set up

Setting up accurate visitors geolocationImprove accuracy of visitors’ Country detection, and enable Cities and Regions trackingInstall the PHP extension for GeoIP 2Get a license key for the MaxMind geolocation databaseInstall the GeoIP 2 module for Apache for accurate Geo location dataGet the geolocation download URL for the free MaxMind DBInstall the GeoIP 2 module for NginxApply accurate geolocation to old visits, tracked before I enabled geo locationGet company and ISP information using GeoIP2 databases

Troubleshoot

Matomo doesn’t detect accurately the Country and/or Continent of my visitorsIn the Providers report, what does “Unknown” mean?Resolve common Location Detection Errors in Matomo