A small change to WordPress to make WHOIS International

February 10th, 2006 by ShaolinTiger at 11:08 AM UTC - 3,684 views

I had a problem with wordpress when I first started using it, being based in Asia most of my commenters are from this region, mainly Malaysia.

So when I tried to look up the commenters IP addresses in WordPress, I didn't get any information because it defaults to ARIN (The American Registry) to lookup the IP addresses.

Like for example this:

http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=60.48.199.141

It just says registered to APNIC (Asia Pacific Registry).

Where as if you use another service like Whois.sc, it will show you proper location like so:

http://www.whois.sc/60.48.199.141

To fix this, you need to edit the /wp-admin/edit-comments.php file.

The lines you need to edit are 92 and 145.

You need to change:

http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=

http://www.whois.sc/

Code Change

Then re-upload the edit-comments.php file to your active install, and refresh the comments page, you can now click the IP address of the commentors and get the correct information!

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9 Comments so far

regularguy on February 10th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1 on Windows XP

Hi,

i'm a new blogger who uses wordpress too. I understand wordpress is downloadable. But there are some techinical complication involved. I downloaded it but the zip file had like a whole load of files.

What should i do? Is there a site that teaches newbies how to install and use the desktop wordpress? or should i just give up now and use the online wordpress?

Your advice is much appreciate... thanks and sorry for going off topic
regularguy on February 10th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1 on Windows XP

please be informed that from a scale of 1 to 10 my tech knowledge on html, xml, php and all that other stuff is 2! ok, maybe 2.2...
Sashi on February 10th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1 on Windows XP

regularguy: Allow me. WordPress is not an executable app that you just click to install. You need to upload all the unzipped files to a webhost with PHP and MySQL support. Then you should check this site out: http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page for instructions on installing and configuring WordPress. It's real simple, believe me...
Dabido (Teflon) on February 10th, 2006 at 1:40 pm
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 on Windows XP

Stone the bleedin' crows, now you'll figure out I'm from Aussie!
hater on February 10th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 on Fedora Linux

+dugg

nice and useful entry
regularguy on February 10th, 2006 at 4:21 pm
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1 on Windows XP

thank you...

one last question, if i have a free wordpress account what webhost with PHP and MySQL support should i use? and how do i 'upload' it?

sorry for being a pest
earl-ku on February 10th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1 on Windows XP

great info man, i've changed the 2 lines and its working

seems like tons of machines from China Telecom is spamming me ...
Jacky on February 12th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1 on Windows XP

Good stuff. Thanks for the info.
Patrick on February 17th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1 on Windows XP

Nice tutorial.
Didnt aware of this at all.
Thanks.