Is it possible to populate $geoip_country from another value in the header?

Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru
Mon Jan 10 06:37:43 MSK 2011


Hello!

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 02:46:42AM +0100, rainer at ultra-secure.de wrote:

> we may have a situation where NGINX is behind a load-balancer that cloaks
> all source-IPs with its own.
> However, the original source-IP is conserved in a header.
> Would it be possible to populate the geoip_country variable from that
> other variable?

http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRealIpModule

real_ip_from your.balancer.ip.address;
real_ip_header Header-With-Client-Ip;

Maxim Dounin



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