Month: July 2020

  • 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;
    }