GeoIP in Nginx Proxy Manager

I’ve tried to add GeoIP2 to my Nginx Proxy Manager. After finding a few blogs and articles that “explain” how to do it, I got more confused. Here is the final guide, that will help you.

First you need to setup a 2nd docker container, that will download your GeoIP2 database from maxmind. They got a docker image for that. Should be simple.

After that, add the databases to your nginx proxymanager like this:

(...)
services:
  npm:
    (...)
    volumes:
      (...)
      - /your/geoip/folder:/geoip

Now add files to the nginx proxy manager data volume.

Add/create the file nginx/custom/http_top.conf to your npm data folder:

geoip2 /geoip/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb {
    $geoip2_data_country_iso_code country iso_code;
}


map $geoip2_data_country_iso_code $allowed_country {
  default 0;
  CH 1;
  # Add your countries like CH here
}

Add/create the file nginx/custom/root_top.conf to your npm data folder:

load_module /usr/lib/nginx/modules/ngx_http_geoip2_module.so;
load_module /usr/lib/nginx/modules/ngx_stream_geoip2_module.so;

Now add this to all your proxies (or the ones you want it to work for) in the advanced tab:

if ($allowed_country = 0) {
	return 404;
}

IT WORKS NOW!