Keep client ip address

[Guillermo Fernandez Castellanos]

Hi,

Thanks Aleksandar and Igor for your answers.

Eventually I've removed all references to real_ip, added those lines:
            proxy_set_header        Host             $host;
            proxy_set_header        X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;
            proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-For  $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
and defined a new log format for my apache server with %{X-Forwarded-For}i

And it works like a charm.

I don't know if changing the log format is the cleanest solution, but
for my simple setup mod_rpaf is a bit overkill and the log change just
works (kiss).

Concerning the compilation options, I have to admit I've used an
Ubuntu precompiled package at http://deb.wapper.ru/nginx/. Hopefully
nginx will quickly be integrated into Ubuntu, you definitively deserve
it (it's in feisty, a bit far yet...).

I've been surprised by how quickly I got a (correct and helpful)
answer. Again, thanks a lot.

Happy new year,

Guille

On 12/30/06, Aleksandar Lazic <al-nginx at none.at> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sam 30.12.2006 21:26, Igor Sysoev wrote:
> >
> >>I have the following system:
> [snipp]
> >>Is what i want to do possible? Does my approach make sense?
> >
> >nginx passes a client address in X-Real-IP or X-Forwarded-For using
> >
> >            proxy_set_header        X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;
> >            proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-For
> >            $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
> >
> >On Apache side you need to set mod_rpaf ( http://stderr.net/apache/rpaf/ )
>
> or you change %h with %{X-Real-IP}i or with %{X-Forwarded-For}i
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_log_config.html
>
> >On nginx side you do not need
> >
> >            set_real_ip_from   192.168.1.0/24;
> >            real_ip_header     X-Real-IP;
> >
> >They do the same thing as mod_rapf for Apache.
>
> I think the realip_module isn't build by default, isn't it?!
>
> If not then don't forget to give --with-http_realip_module option to
> ./configure ;-)
>
> BR
>
> Aleks
>