[SOLVED] Maxmind geoipupdate gets http 403 on docker run

Maxmind geoipupdate gets http 403 on docker run

I am using maxmind GeoLite2 binary database for geolocation services and I want to update this periodically.

It works fine on updating through geoipupdate program installed via brew. However Maxmind provides a docker image to update db periodically. When I try to run docker command below,

 docker run --env-file IdeaProjects/ip-geolocation-service/src/main/resources/application.properties  -v /Users/me/GeoIp maxmindinc/geoipupdate

With the environment file refers to application.properties,

GEOIPUPDATE_ACCOUNT_ID=12345
GEOIPUPDATE_LICENSE_KEY=aaaaaaaaaa
GEOIPUPDATE_EDITION_IDS=GeoIP2-Country

I gets the following error:

# STATE: Creating configuration file at /etc/GeoIP.conf
# STATE: Running geoipupdate
error retrieving updates: error while getting database for GeoIP2-Country: unexpected HTTP status code: received HTTP status code: 403: Invalid product ID or subscription expired for GeoIP2-Country

Since my credentials is working on manual trigger, I wonder why it has not working on docker run? Any idea for spotting problem or anyone has faced with it?

Solution

You write that you want to use the free GeoLite2 database but the ID you use looks like the commercial/paid one. Try the following instead:

GEOIPUPDATE_EDITION_IDS=GeoLite2-Country

Source: https://github.com/maxmind/geoipupdate/blob/main/doc/docker.md