#1786 Error after enabling GeoIP6 plugin

[Vinix Wu]

I've setup awStats to scan IIS log for 8 years and use GeoIP plugin without problem.

Recently I upgraded to 7.4 and noticed there's a new plugin: GeoIP6. When I enabled GeoIP6 plugin (and disabled GeoIP) in conf file, I got the error:
Can't locate object method "country_code_by_addr_v6" via package "Geo::IP" at D:\AWStats\wwwroot\cgi-bin/plugins/geoip6.pm line 113, <LOG> line 2.

Please tell me how to fix the problem, thank you.

Version Info:
Windows Server: 2003 SP2
awStats: 7.4
ActivePerl: 5.20.2002
Geo-IP: 1.45

[François]

I was hit by the same issue. The error occurs because "country_code_by_addr_v6" is available only when Geo::IP Perl module is using C API, not pure Perl. This solution worked for me:

Operating System: Ubuntu 14.04

A) Install GeoIP C library

Source of instructions: https://github.com/maxmind/geoip-api-c

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maxmind/ppa
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install libgeoip1 libgeoip-dev geoip-bin

B) Install Geo::IP Perl module from source

Source of instructions: https://github.com/maxmind/geoip-api-perl/blob/master/INSTALL

Download latest release from GitHub (version 1.45) and execute:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

I realized later that Step A may not be required. You may want to try B only.