I have added Maxmind license key (DISCOURSE_MAXMIND_LICENSE_KEY) and rebuild (or destroy/start) my site. But still users IP address show (unknown). How can I debug or verify if my Maxmind license key works? [Screen Shot 2023-03-16 at 11.42.40 AM]

This is now a known problem - see Rebuild is failing with a wrong MaxMindDB API key

[image] Hyan: rebuild (or destroy/start) Just to be clear a destroy/start won’t work, it must be a rebuild.

There’s below error if I rebuild with Maxmind license key in my container web config. I can rebuild successfully if I comment out Maxmind license key. rake aborted! NameError: undefined local variable or method `name' for main:Object /var/www/discourse/lib/tasks/assets.rake:288:in `rescue in block (2 levels) in ' /var/www/discourse/lib/tasks/assets.rake:280:in `block (2 levels) in ' Caused by: OpenURI::HTTPError: 401 Error /var/www/discourse/lib/file_helper.rb:77:in `block in download' /var/www/discourse/lib/final_destination.rb:494:in `block (3 levels) in safe_get' /var/www/discourse/lib/final_destination.rb:494:in `catch' /var/www/discourse/lib/final_destination.rb:494:in `block (2 levels) in safe_get' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/rack-mini-profiler-3.0.0/lib/patches/net_patches.rb:19:in `block in request_with_mini_profiler' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/rack-mini-profiler-3.0.0/lib/mini_profiler/profiling_methods.rb:46:in `step' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/rack-mini-profiler-3.0.0/lib/patches/net_patches.rb:18:in `request_with_mini_profiler' /var/www/discourse/lib/final_destination.rb:455:in `block in safe_get' /var/www/discourse/lib/final_destination.rb:518:in `block in safe_session' /var/www/discourse/lib/final_destination.rb:511:in `safe_session' /var/www/discourse/lib/final_destination.rb:450:in `safe_get' /var/www/discourse/lib/final_destination.rb:161:in `get' /var/www/discourse/lib/file_helper.rb:69:in `download' /var/www/discourse/lib/discourse_ip_info.rb:40:in `mmdb_download' /var/www/discourse/lib/tasks/assets.rake:281:in `block (3 levels) in ' /var/www/discourse/lib/tasks/assets.rake:281:in `each' /var/www/discourse/lib/tasks/assets.rake:281:in `block (2 levels) in ' Tasks: TOP => assets:precompile (See full trace by running task with --trace) I, [2023-03-17T04:47:55.908408 #1] INFO -- : yarn run v1.22.19 $ /var/www/discourse/app/assets/javascripts/node_modules/.bin/ember build -prod WARNING: Node v18.15.0 is not tested against Ember CLI on your platform. We recommend that you use the most-recent "Active LTS" version of Node.js. See https://git.io/v7S5n for details. Environment: production cleaning up... Built project successfully. Stored in "dist/". 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Downloading MaxMindDB... Compressing Javascript and Generating Source Maps FAILED -------------------- Pups::ExecError: cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake themes:update assets:precompile' failed with return # Location of failure: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/pups-1.1.1/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:117:in `spawn' exec failed with the params {"cd"=>"$home", "hook"=>"assets_precompile", "cmd"=>["su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake themes:update assets:precompile'"]} bootstrap failed with exit code 1 ** FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP ** please scroll up and look for earlier error messages, there may be more than one. ./discourse-doctor may help diagnose the problem. e485abe8ea1b2a03c9f55845203412d810bc8189b3744e11b084667f6a2244a4 [root@stage discourse]# Done-c 'bundle exec rake themes:update assets:precompile' failed with return # bash: Done-c: command not found [root@stage discourse]# Location of failure: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/pups-1.1.1/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:117:in `spawn' > exec failed with the params {"cd"=>"$home", "hook"=>"assets_precompile", "cmd"=>["su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake themes:update assets:precompile'"]} > bootstrap failed with exit code 1 > ** FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP ** please scroll up and look for earlier error messages, there may be more than one. > ./discourse-doctor may help diagnose the problem. >

Yes. @Ed_S It turns out the license key issue. I’m sorry wasting anyone who taking time to answer the post. For anyone who wants to verify if their Maxmind license key valid, one can follow this instruction Updating GeoIP and GeoLite Databases | MaxMind Developer Portal by curl or wget MaxMind DB. Failure/success tells your license key’s validation. I’m now researching how can the Maxmind location return localized text rather than in English.

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Falco (Falco) March 16, 2023, 4:16am 2

Just to be clear a destroy/start won’t work, it must be a rebuild.

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