Configuring IP2Location Database

Visitor API has built-in provider to find visitor's location based on their IP Address.

To configure the IP2Location Database, you need add the following code to the Startup.cs file in your Web API application.

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    // ...     
    services.ConfigureVisitor(builder =>
    {
        builder.UseIp2Location(*ip2LocationConnectionString*);
    });
}

As shown in the code above, Visitor API requires a ConnectionString to the Ip2Location database. It works with ip-country-region-city-latitude-longitude-zipcode-timezone database and MS SQL server. You can easily set up the database by following their instructions.

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Note: The LITE edition is an open-source version of database with limited accuracy & number of records compares to commercial release. It is free for personal or commercial use with attribution required by mentioning the use of this data as follows:
This product includes IP2Location LITE data available from IP2Location.