Incorrect IP address detected on nginx reverse proxy (Bluehost VPS hosting)

[rachelrine]

Description

Found reference to this issue here.

Solution

Was able to fix the issue by manually removing line 55.

Needed

Looking for a way to specify this in the admin, so the manual fix doesn't get overwritten on update.

[davist11]

This change now prevents the correct IP from being returned and 127.0.0.1 is returned

[brandonkelly]

Yeah looking at the Wikipedia article for X-Forwarded-For, looks like it is in fact meant to represent the client’s IP.

@rachelrine It sounds like your server is the one that is misusing the header. If that’s out of your control, you can configure Craft to ignore it with the ipHeaders config setting:

/* config/general.php */

'ipHeaders' => [
    'Client-IP',
    'X-Forwarded',
    'X-Cluster-Client-IP',
    'Forwarded-For',
    'Forwarded',
],