In this short article, I will give you a quick and easy way to test your project communication with MaxMind database locally, without the need for a publically accessible instance or proxy server of some kind which would normally be needed for accurate testing of Contact location. This test was conducted on Kentico 12 instances but should work in all supported versions. This setup will show you if MaxMind is returning data right out of the gate and will also provide you with some general setup tips for MVC and portal engine sites. 

My team is currently on Kentico 8.2, and we get geographic data by using MaxMind's free GeoLite database. However, we’ve learned that the GeoLite data is no longer maintained. MaxMind has release...