Follow-up question: Is there a way to manually trigger geo-ip db update procedure e.g. not to wait next cron cycle to run?

Hi,

As far as I know Matomo internally replaces this link with the current month when e.g. downloading the file.

Is there a way to manually trigger geo-ip db update procedure e.g. not to wait next cron cycle to run?

sudo -u www-data php console core:run-scheduled-tasks "Piwik\Plugins\GeoIp2\GeoIP2AutoUpdater.update" should run the task (not sure if it downloads the file if it isn't old enough)

Thanks, command worked, although I can't ran it on all other shared hosting servers,
I was thinking about internal "button" to manually trigger it from Admin dash. But, I can replace / upload file manually, as well.

So, you are probably correct, I have updated to the latest version, or so I think, but the accuracy of the database is very poor. It shows a different city hundred miles away from true location.

I will probably have to register and switch back to MM, since it was spot on.

Yep, switched back to MM (even older version from Dec-2019) and it is so much more accurate, not to mention some 25-30% lighter in size. Now getting latest update...

We have to rename the file to DBIP-City.mmdb (otherwise it is not recognized by Matomo if we leave MM name convention).

Apparently, not, but if both DBs are present, first one will be used.

Matomo indeed replaces the month automatically and downloads up to date file without needing to do anything.

Thanks, I did not close this issue right away, even if I resolved it personally in my case.
You might consider expanding information on Geolocation page in Admin Dash to clarify few things, e.g. regarding file names of 2 alternatives (DB-IP vs MaxMind) and such :)

sure I can reopen the issue and adjust the title in case someone wants to do a PR

I think there might be a better way to improve the usability of this page than just adding an explanation. The URL in the form field - the one that @dev-101 reported as obsolete - is saved in the options at the time of the initial Matomo install.

Why not update this URL each time it changes when the updater task runs to download the latest copy of the geolocation database? Then users will either see that the URLs in the screenshot above match as they have the latest copy of the database or at most that it's a month out of date - and if that's the case, once they scroll further down the page and see when the updater runs next, the discrepancy becomes self-explanatory. Will add a PR for this shortly and will be happy to make any changes to it as you see fit, @tsteur.