How to auto detect region?

[half bear]

I spun up Medusa with the nextjs storefront, but it doesn't look like the storefront auto detects the region. Should this be something built into the core backend with something like maxmind?

[honest wedge]

You could create a plugin or just add it as a custom service to your Medusa server. We have a plugin for IPStack, but you are free to use whatever service you wish to use. Since IP look ups are a paid service, I can’t see it become a core part of Medusa, but something that users can handle through plugins 🙂

[half bear]

Maxmind has a free DB that can be downloaded and used: https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geolite2-free-geolocation-data?lang=en

But I guess another plugin is probably the best route

Can I try and contribute a maxmind plugin?

[half bear]

Here's the plugin i've created: https://github.com/g33kdev/medusa-plugin-ip-lookup-maxmind

[formal stag]

Hey @half bear how can you "implement" this with the storefront so it autoselects the region? Do you have any examples? Thanks!

[half bear]

soo after installing this plugin, does the create cart api return the correct region?

[formal stag]

I get: {"level":"error","message":"A region is required to create a cart","stack":[{"columnNumber":27,"fileName":"/app/medusa/node_modules/@medusajs/medusa/dis...

[half bear]

🧐 a region shouldn't be required according to this: https://docs.medusajs.com/api/store/#tag/Cart/operation/PostCart

Have you created regions and countries in your backend?

[formal stag]

Ignore my previous error, it was due to a database missconfig. Right know everything works, the only issue is that is setting my IP to UK, but my IP is from Spain. I'm running the storefront in Vercel and the backend at home in a kubernetes cluster, both with SSL and no problems comunicating between them

I'm seeing a bunch of IPs in the logs but those are neither UK or my current IP

[half bear]

I looked up 172.68.134.37 and it looks like a cloudflare IP. Are you using cloudflare proxy?

[formal stag]

I see that, at first I thought that, then I checked and it's on DNS-only mode

[half bear]

for your server (k8s cluster)?

[formal stag]

I think it has something to do with: https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/edge-network/headers#x-forwarded-for

I'm adding x-vercel-forwarded-for to the plugin to verify if that solves it

[formal stag]

both, vercel app and my k8s cluster are open, without cloudflare proxies

[half bear]

would you be okay DM'ing me your domain?

[formal stag]

sure, which one? storefront or server?

[half bear]

server