Client-IP HTTP header to X-Forwarded-For

[Igor Sysoev]

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 03:31:44PM +0100, Mike wrote:

> Client requests are through virtual IP's that are handled by a hardware 
> load balancer, and then passed onto the real servers on the backend. The 
> source IP from the client is NAT'd so that all IP's appear to originate 
> from the load balancer. Responses from the real servers are sent back 
> via the load balancer to the client.
> 
> On the load balancer, I have enabled, in the configuration, that a 
> header be added by the load balancer and passed onto the server that is 
> running Nginx (version 0.5.19). The request header that is added and 
> passed out to the real server, is as follows:
> 
> Client-IP: myip
> 
> Is there any way to get Nginx to log this IP as the remote_addr or as 
> X-Forwarded-For so that the PHP application that Nginx is passing 
> requests to will log the real source IP? I realise that there have been 
> posts in the past but I have not been able to figure this out.

This header is available in nginx as $http_client_ip.

You can describe it in log_format instead of $remote_ip
and you pass it to FastCGI:

fastcgi_param  REMOTE_ADDR        $http_client_ip;


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Igor Sysoev
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