GeoIP Bypassing for Nginx Proxy

Goal:

• Proxy content for requests in specific country or region
• Redirect any requests made outside specific country or region to original URL (to save bandwidth

geoip_country         /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPv6.dat;
map $geoip_country_code $proxy_direct_pass {
  default yes;
  CN no;
}

location ~* ^/proxied-content/(.*)$ {
  if ($proxy_direct_pass = yes) {
    return 302 https://original_content/$1$is_args$args;
  }

  proxy_pass https://original_content/$1$is_args$args;
}