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How to change ‘IP to Country Lite database’ to MaxMind as a source for blocking countries in Plesk Firewall

 
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Question

How to change 'IP to Country Lite database' to MaxMind as a source for blocking countries in Plesk Firewall

Answer

Follow these steps to switch to MaxMind or change its license key.

  1. Connect to the server over SSH

  2. Edit /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/panel.ini

    # vi /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/panel.ini

  3. Add the following lines depending on the version to use and save the file:

    • GeoLite2 DB (free)

      [ext-firewall]
      geoipDataSource = maxmind-lite

    • GeoIP2 DB (paid)

      [ext-firewall]
      geoipDataSource = maxmind

  4. Run this command on the terminal once

    Note: Replace "<license_key>" with the MaxMind license key.

    # LICENSE_KEY="<license_key>" plesk sbin modules/firewall/ipsets --configure --data-source maxmind-lite --force

    This may result in warnings like the follwing. They can be ignored as long as their return code is 0:

    ipset v7.11: Set cannot be destroyed: it is in use by a kernel component

  5. Reapply the configuration using Plesk Firewall

To switch back to DB-IP (db-ip-lite data source), remove the geoipDataSource line from panel.ini and reapply the Plesk Firewall configuration.

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