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Introduction

A customer has a preference import a Geo Location database from another supplier other than IP2Location

The table the customer wishes to import is from https://db-ip.com/

This is fine to do however they do not include the country name in their csv file, plus they have an extra column called 'Continent_code' that is not included in the 'lp2loaction_db3' table that is already created on the dualshield database.

Therefore extra steps are to create a separate table to import a list of country codes, which we later load into ip2location_db3 table as we upload the data from the CSV file provided by https://db-ip.com/

The other requirement is that the ip address in the csv will need to be converted to integer format to match the datatype already specified on the ip2location_db3 table.

Prerequisites

The customer would have already obtained the relevant csv file from https://db-ip.com/ and save locally to your DualShield Server.

Please download the Country Code List.csv by clicking here.

Method

If your DualShield is using a MySQL database, follow the steps below to import "IP2LOCATION-LITE-DB5.CSV". (Please note, this can also be done on SQL console on DualShield Admin Console)

1 - Log into MySQL console

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3 - Create a new Table called "Countrycountry_Listlist"

mysql > CREATE TABLE country_Listlist(
country_code VARCHAR(255),
country_name VARCHAR(255)
);

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4 - Upload the Country Code List.csv into  the new "country_list" table

mysql > LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'C:\\Geo-Location\\Country Code List.csv' 
INTO TABLE country_list 
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' 
ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n'
IGNORE 0 LINES (country_code, country_name);

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3 5 - Execute the script below to import the database

mysql > LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'FILE-PATH-TO\\IP2LOCATION-LITE-DB3.CSVdbip-city-lite-####-##.csv' INTO TABLE ip2location_db3
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n' 
IGNORE 01 LINES ROWS
(ip@ip_from,ip@ip_to,country@continent_code,country_namecode,region_name,city_name,latitude,longitude)
SET country_name = (SELECT country_name from country_list where ip2location_db3.country_code = country_list.country_code), ip_from=INET_ATON(@ip_from), ip_to=INET_ATON(@ip_to);

* replace "FILE-PATH-TO" with the actual file path where the downloaded file is saved, e.g. "C:\\Temp"has been saved and the '#' with the year and month that appends the file name.

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6 - You can check the table has been uploaded properly by selecting the first few rows..

mysql >  select * from ip2location_db3 Limit 100;

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