title: NginX GeoIP Module Config - load_module not allowed on First Line of Conf
body: <p>My nginx conf looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>include /usr/share/nginx/modules/mod-http-geoip.conf;
  
  server {
  
  }
  
  server {
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I had installed mod-http-geoip via sudo yum install nginx-mod-http-geoip</p>
  
  <p>and i have these:</p>
  
  <p>/usr/share/nginx/modules/mod-http-geoip.conf:</p>
  
  <pre><code>load_module "/usr/lib64/nginx/modules/ngx_http_geoip_module.so";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>/usr/lib64/nginx/modules/ngx_http_geoip_module.so</p>
  
  <p>The error I get:</p>
  
  <p>2018/07/09 09:37:14 [emerg] 9552#0: "load_module" directive is not allowed here in /usr/share/nginx/modules/mod-http-geoip.conf:1</p>
  
  <p>This is my nginx -V :</p>
  
  <pre><code>[root@ip-172-31-45-46 modules]# nginx -V
  nginx version: nginx/1.12.1
  built by gcc 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-11) (GCC) 
  built with OpenSSL 1.0.2k-fips  26 Jan 2017
  TLS SNI support enabled
  configure arguments: --prefix=/usr/share/nginx --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx --modules-path=/usr/lib64/nginx/modules --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/client_body --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/proxy --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/fastcgi --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/uwsgi --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/scgi --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/var/lock/subsys/nginx --user=nginx --group=nginx --with-file-aio --with-ipv6 --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_v2_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_addition_module --with-http_xslt_module=dynamic --with-http_image_filter_module=dynamic --with-http_geoip_module=dynamic --with-http_sub_module --with-http_dav_module --with-http_flv_module --with-http_mp4_module --with-http_gunzip_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_random_index_module --with-http_secure_link_module --with-http_degradation_module --with-http_slice_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_perl_module=dynamic --with-http_auth_request_module --with-mail=dynamic --with-mail_ssl_module --with-pcre --with-pcre-jit --with-stream=dynamic --with-stream_ssl_module --with-google_perftools_module --with-debug --with-cc-opt='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic' --with-ld-opt=' -Wl,-E'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Note that the above had "--with-http_geoip_module=dynamic" argument</p>
  
  <p>Can someone point what im missing?</p>
  
  <p>I followed Peter Jones' answer on this post: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36554405/how-to-enable-dynamic-module-with-an-existing-nginx-installation?noredirect=1&amp;lq=1">How to enable dynamic module with an existing NGINX installation</a></p>
  
  <p>I also tried:
  - Putting load_module "/usr/lib64/nginx/modules/ngx_http_geoip_module.so";
   in the first line of my .conf file.
  - putting load_module "/usr/lib64/nginx/modules/ngx_http_geoip_module.so";
   inside the server { } </p>
  
  <p>All giving me the same error, "load_module" directive is not allowed here</p>
  
  <p>Do I need to run ./configure command, make or anything?</p>