Is it being loaded in your php fpm or cgi's php.ini?

i've put it in both fpm/php.ini and cli/php.ini

i've also tried in /etc/php5/mods-enabled/geoip.ini which gets autoloaded.

if it matters, GeoIP (PHP) is marked as installed.

Just to make sure, you restarted php-fpm after editing the INI config right?

Piwik detects the PECL extension by looking for the geoip_db_avail() function. If it says it's not installed, the function must not exist for some reason.

yup, restarted several times... not sure why its not showing up as installed.

That function definitely doesn't exist though, ill close this out

Can you check what the result of echo (int)function_exists('geoip_db_avail'); is when executed by cli and from php-fpm? Don't add the code to Piwik since you already know it doesn't show up there. Looking at the output of phpinfo() may also help you find the problem. Other than that though, I don't think there's much else I can suggest.

This looks like a server configuration issue, so I'm closing for now. If you find it's caused by a problem in Piwik, feel free to re-open.

EDIT: Beat me to it :)