geoip-city-wsgi SOP
A simple web service that return geoip information as JSON-formatted dictionary in utf-8. Particularly, it’s used by anaconda[1] to get the most probable territory code, based on the public IP of the caller.
Contact Information
- Owner
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Fedora Infrastructure Team
- Contact
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#fedora-apps, #fedora-admin, #fedora-noc
- Location
- Servers
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sundries*, sundries*-stg
- Purpose
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A simple web service that return geoip information as JSON-formatted dictionary in utf-8. Particularly, it’s used by anaconda to get the most probable territory code, based on the public IP of the caller.
Basic Function
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Users go to https://geoip.fedoraproject.org/city
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The website is exposed via
/etc/httpd/conf.d/geoip-city-wsgi-proxy.conf. -
Return a string with geoip information with syntax as JSON-formatted dict in utf8
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It also currently accepts one override:
?ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, e.g. https://geoip.fedoraproject.org/city?ip=18.0.0.1 which then uses the passed IP address instead of the determined IP address of the client.
Ansible Roles
The geoip-city-wsgi role: https://pagure.io/fedora-infra/ansible/blob/main/f/roles/geoip-city-wsgi
is present in sundries playbook: https://pagure.io/fedora-infra/ansible/blob/main/f/playbooks/groups/sundries.yml
the proxy tasks are present in: https://pagure.io/fedora-infra/ansible/blob/main/f/playbooks/include/proxies-reverseproxy.yml
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