Retrieve and configure licence key

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Ahmet Türkmen edited this page Apr 1, 2020 · 1 revision

Licence Key Retrieving

rickit.lookup uses MaxMind database, with new regulations, they are requiring to have free licence key, in order to use MaxMind database, in order to retrieve free licence, you can do following steps;
- You can the post here and obtain MAXMIND_LICENCE_KEY, to use lookup module correctly.
- Steps: (Taken from maxmind blog post)
  - GeoLite2 Databases Affected
  - GeoLite2 Country
  - GeoLite2 City
  - GeoLite2 ASN
  - Steps for Migration
  - Sign up for a MaxMind account (no purchase required)
  - Set your password and create a license key
  - Setup your download mechanism by using our GeoIP Update program or creating a direct download script
- If you do not retrieve MAXMIND_LICENCE_KEY, you may end up with failed test cases and some portion of the module might not work correctly.
Configuration of the licence key
- After you have done all necesseary steps over there, set your environment variable as:
  - export MAXMIND_LICENCE_KEY= <your-key> >> ~/.bashrc
  - (append it to your bash profile or your terminal profile file whichever you are using. )
  - The environment variable is used as MAXMIND_LICENCE_KEY in test case here