IP Address Location Information

Ektron CMS400.NET obtains the following information from the IP address of your site visitors.

Information	Example
IP Address	208.32.120.10
Country code and name	United States
Region	NH (New Hampshire)
US area code	603
US metro code	506
City	506
US zip code	Nashua
Latitude and longitude	42.7551/-71.4853
Organization	Sprint
Domain name	www.example.com

Retrieving IPAddress Information

Ektron CMS400.NET retrieves the IP address information from a site visitor's IP address via three databases. The databases are installed to your site root's App_data folder and listed in your site's web.config file.

Database (as listed in web.config)	Returns the following information, based on IP address
<!-- GeoIP City Database --> <add key="GeoIpCityDatabase" value="~/App_Data/GeoLiteCity.dat"/>	Area code City US State Country code and name Latitude and Longitude MetroCode PostalCode Telephone area code
<!-- GeoIP Organization Database --> <add key="GeoIpOrgDatabase" value="~/App_Data/GeoIPOrg.dat"/>	organization name
<!-- GeoIP Domain Database --> <add key="GeoIpDomainDatabase" value="~/App_Data/GeoIPDomain.dat"/>	domain name

If you want to move the databases to another folder, you must update their web.config value elements to the new location.

Note: The tilde character (~) in the value element represents the site root folder.

Ektron Best Practice Ektron recommends keeping the GeoIP databases in the App_data folder, since this folder prevents unauthorized copying of the database.