diff --git a/src/modsecurity.cc b/src/modsecurity.cc
index 61948f7d..f0e97ce9 100644
--- a/src/modsecurity.cc
+++ b/src/modsecurity.cc
@@ -58,7 +58,9 @@ ModSecurity::~ModSecurity() {
 #ifdef MSC_WITH_CURL
     curl_global_cleanup();
 #endif
+#ifdef WITH_GEOIP
     Utils::GeoLookup::getInstance().cleanUp();
+#endif
 }
 
 
diff --git a/src/operators/geo_lookup.cc b/src/operators/geo_lookup.cc
index 4f45063c..54f185a9 100644
--- a/src/operators/geo_lookup.cc
+++ b/src/operators/geo_lookup.cc
@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@
 
 #include "operators/geo_lookup.h"
 
+#ifdef WITH_GEOIP
 #include <GeoIPCity.h>
+#endif
 
 #include <string>
 #include <functional>
@@ -31,10 +33,11 @@ namespace operators {
 bool GeoLookup::evaluate(Assay *assay, const std::string &exp) {
     using std::placeholders::_1;
     using std::placeholders::_2;
-
-    GeoIPRecord *gir;
     bool ret = true;
 
+#ifdef WITH_GEOIP
+    GeoIPRecord *gir;
+
     if (assay) {
         ret = Utils::GeoLookup::getInstance().lookup(exp, &gir,
             std::bind(&GeoLookup::debug, this, assay, _1, _2));
@@ -85,6 +88,7 @@ bool GeoLookup::evaluate(Assay *assay, const std::string &exp) {
 
         GeoIPRecord_delete(gir);
     }
+#endif  // WITH_GEOIP
 
     return ret;
 }
diff --git a/src/parser/seclang-parser.yy b/src/parser/seclang-parser.yy
index e4ec5f47..615fcf62 100644
--- a/src/parser/seclang-parser.yy
+++ b/src/parser/seclang-parser.yy
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ using ModSecurity::Variables::Tx;
 %token <std::string> CONFIG_DIR_GEO_DB
 
 %token <std::string> OPERATOR
+%token <std::string> OPERATOR_GEOIP
 %token <std::string> FREE_TEXT
 %token <std::string> ACTION
 %token <std::string> ACTION_ACCURACY
@@ -361,6 +362,23 @@ op:
         }
         $$ = op;
       }
+    | OPERATOR_GEOIP
+      {
+#ifdef WITH_GEOIP
+        Operator *op = Operator::instantiate($1);
+        const char *error = NULL;
+        if (op->init(driver.ref.back(), &error) == false) {
+            driver.error(@0, error);
+            YYERROR;
+        }
+        $$ = op;
+#else
+        std::stringstream ss;
+            ss << "This version of ModSecurity was not compiled with GeoIP support.";
+            driver.error(@0, ss.str());
+            YYERROR;
+#endif  // WITH_GEOIP
+      }
     | FREE_TEXT
       {
         Operator *op = Operator::instantiate("\"@rx " + $1 + "\"");
@@ -521,6 +539,7 @@ expression:
     /* Debug log: end */
     | CONFIG_DIR_GEO_DB
       {
+#ifdef WITH_GEOIP
         std::string file = ModSecurity::find_resource($1, driver.ref.back());
         if (GeoLookup::getInstance().setDataBase(file) == false) {
             std::stringstream ss;
@@ -529,6 +548,12 @@ expression:
             driver.error(@0, ss.str());
             YYERROR;
         }
+#else
+        std::stringstream ss;
+        ss << "This version of ModSecurity was not compiled with GeoIP support.";
+        driver.error(@0, ss.str());
+        YYERROR;
+#endif  // WITH_GEOIP
       }
     /* Body limits */
     | CONFIG_DIR_REQ_BODY_LIMIT
diff --git a/src/parser/seclang-scanner.ll b/src/parser/seclang-scanner.ll
index 1585e057..e18d26ac 100755
--- a/src/parser/seclang-scanner.ll
+++ b/src/parser/seclang-scanner.ll
@@ -103,8 +103,8 @@ DICT_ELEMENT    [^ \t|]+
 
 OPERATOR        (?i:(?:@inspectFile|@fuzzyHash|@validateByteRange|@validateDTD|@validateHash|@validateSchema|@verifyCC|@verifyCPF|@verifySSN|@gsbLookup|@rsub)|(?:\!{0,1})(?:@within|@containsWord|@contains|@endsWith|@eq|@ge|@gt|@ipMatchF|@ipMatch|@ipMatchFromFile|@le|@lt|@pmf|@pm|@pmFromFile|@rbl|@rx|@streq|@strmatch|@beginsWith))
 
-OPERATORNOARG	(?i:@detectSQLi|@detectXSS|@geoLookup|@validateUrlEncoding|@validateUtf8Encoding)
-
+OPERATORNOARG	(?i:@detectSQLi|@detectXSS|@validateUrlEncoding|@validateUtf8Encoding)
+OPERATOR_GEOIP  (?i:@geoLookup)
 
 TRANSFORMATION  t:(sha1|hexEncode|lowercase|urlDecodeUni|urlDecode|none|compressWhitespace|removeWhitespace|replaceNulls|removeNulls|htmlEntityDecode|jsDecode|cssDecode|trim|normalizePathWin|normalisePath|length|utf8toUnicode|urldecode|removeComments|replaceComments)
 
@@ -281,7 +281,8 @@ CONFIG_DIR_UNICODE_MAP_FILE (?i:SecUnicodeMapFile)
 <EXPECTING_OPERATOR>{
 {SOMETHING}           { BEGIN(INITIAL); return yy::seclang_parser::make_FREE_TEXT(yytext, *driver.loc.back()); }
 ["]{OPERATOR}[ ]{FREE_TEXT}["]  { BEGIN(INITIAL); return yy::seclang_parser::make_OPERATOR(yytext, *driver.loc.back()); }
-["]{OPERATORNOARG}[\t ]*["]           { BEGIN(INITIAL); return yy::seclang_parser::make_OPERATOR(yytext, *driver.loc.back()); }
+["]{OPERATORNOARG}[\t ]*["]     { BEGIN(INITIAL); return yy::seclang_parser::make_OPERATOR(yytext, *driver.loc.back()); }
+["]{OPERATOR_GEOIP}[\t ]*["]    { BEGIN(INITIAL); return yy::seclang_parser::make_OPERATOR_GEOIP(yytext, *driver.loc.back()); }
 }
 
 {ACTION}                        { return yy::seclang_parser::make_ACTION(yytext, *driver.loc.back()); }
diff --git a/src/utils/geo_lookup.cc b/src/utils/geo_lookup.cc
index d860c114..1d4401c1 100644
--- a/src/utils/geo_lookup.cc
+++ b/src/utils/geo_lookup.cc
@@ -31,9 +31,13 @@ namespace Utils {
 
 
 GeoLookup::~GeoLookup() {
+#ifdef WITH_GEOIP
     cleanUp();
+#endif  // WITH_GEOIP
 }
 
+#ifdef WITH_GEOIP
+
 void GeoLookup::cleanUp() {
     if (m_gi != NULL) {
         GeoIP_delete(m_gi);
@@ -41,10 +45,8 @@ void GeoLookup::cleanUp() {
     }
 }
 
-
 bool GeoLookup::setDataBase(const std::string& filePath) {
     m_gi = GeoIP_open(filePath.c_str(), GEOIP_INDEX_CACHE);
-
     if (m_gi == NULL) {
         return false;
     }
@@ -71,6 +73,8 @@ bool GeoLookup::lookup(const std::string& target, GeoIPRecord **gir,
     return true;
 }
 
+#endif  // WITH_GEOIP
+
 
 }  // namespace Utils
 }  // namespace ModSecurity
diff --git a/src/utils/geo_lookup.h b/src/utils/geo_lookup.h
index d13000d4..67f6f10a 100644
--- a/src/utils/geo_lookup.h
+++ b/src/utils/geo_lookup.h
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@
 #include <string>
 #include <functional>
 
+#ifdef WITH_GEOIP  // WITH_GEOIP
 #include <GeoIPCity.h>
+#endif
 
 #ifndef SRC_UTILS_GEO_LOOKUP_H_
 #define SRC_UTILS_GEO_LOOKUP_H_
@@ -35,11 +37,12 @@ class GeoLookup {
         static GeoLookup instance;
         return instance;
     }
-
+#ifdef WITH_GEOIP
     bool setDataBase(const std::string& filePath);
     bool lookup(const std::string& target, GeoIPRecord **georec,
         std::function<bool(int, std::string)> callback);
     void cleanUp();
+#endif  // WITH_GEOIP
 
  private:
     GeoLookup()
@@ -47,8 +50,11 @@ class GeoLookup {
     ~GeoLookup();
     GeoLookup(GeoLookup const&);
     void operator=(GeoLookup const&);
-
+#ifdef WITH_GEOIP
     GeoIP *m_gi;
+#else  // WITH_GEOIP
+    void *m_gi;
+#endif  // WITH_GEOIP
 };