Django GeoIP Error; invalid path type

django, geolocation, python

Solution

If you really have a comma in there, then you are setting GEOIP_PATH to a tuple and not a string, which would explain the error. If this is the case, simply remove the comma:

# settings.py

import os

BASE_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
GEOIP_PATH = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'geoip')

Problem

After struggling to get GeoIp installed properly for a Django project, I finally appear to have installed it properly via universal geoip with brew. Unfortunately, when trying it out in the shell, I'm receiving the following error: ``` >>> from django.contrib.gis.utils.geoip import GeoIP >>> g = GeoIP() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<console>", line 1, in <module> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/utils/geoip.py", line 193, in __init__ raise TypeError('Invalid path type: %s' % type(path).__name__) ``` TypeError: Invalid path type: tuple I've been trying to properly install GeoIP for about seven hours so any insight into this latest error would be very much appreciated.

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