You can enable this module by creating a symbolic link from ${PREFIX}/conf/php5.sample/geoip.ini to ${PREFIX}/conf/php5/geoip.ini. ln -fs ${PREFIX}/conf/php5.sample/geoip.ini \ ${PREFIX}/conf/php5/geoip.ini If you already have Apache running on your machine, you should not use "apachectl restart" - instead, you should fully stop and then restart the server.