From 983ef695d1379b8be3ba773078ab8036062ee542 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: GilbN <24592972+gilbN@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 20:14:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Update variable

Now log_format uses the same variable as geoip2.conf does
---
 README.md | 18 ++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0507965..4489b65 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -51,23 +51,21 @@ The InfluxDB database will be created automatically with the name you choose.
 
 ## Sending Nginx log metrics
 
-1. Add the following to the http block in your `nginx.conf`file:
+1. Uncomment the Geoip2 config in `nginx.conf`
+
+2. Add the following to the http block in your `nginx.conf`file:
 
 ```nginx
-geoip2 /config/geoip2db/GeoLite2-City.mmdb {
-auto_reload 5m;
-$geoip2_data_country_code country iso_code;
-$geoip2_data_city_name city names en;
-}
-
 log_format geoip2influx '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local]'
            '"$request" $status $body_bytes_sent'
            '"$http_referer" $host "$http_user_agent"'
            '"$request_time" "$upstream_connect_time"'
-           '"$geoip2_data_city_name" "$geoip2_data_country_code"';
+           '"$geoip2_data_city_name" "$geoip2_data_country_iso_code"';
  ```
  
- 2. Set the access log use the `geoip2influx` log format. 
+ 3. Set the access log use the `geoip2influx` log format.
+ 
+ Note: The log_format block must be above the access_log context. 
  ```nginx
  access_log /config/log/nginx/access.log geoip2influx;
  ```
@@ -86,4 +84,4 @@ As nginx can have multiple `access log` directives in a block, just add another
 ```
 This will log the same lines to both files.
 
-Then use the `/config/log/nginx/access.log` file in the `NGINX_LOG_PATH` variable. 
\ No newline at end of file
+Then use the `/config/log/nginx/access.log` file in the `NGINX_LOG_PATH` variable.