Real IP for Apache (Nginx reverse proxy)

Nginx + Apache reverse proxy REAL IP.md

NGINX 1.10 + APACHE 2.4 real IP for reverse proxy

Edit nginx conf

default.conf or what you want

vim /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

add proxy_set_header for php files

   location ~ \.php$ {
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP  $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;

        proxy_pass   http://127.0.0.1:8080;
    }

Add apache remoteip mod with

a2enmod remoteip

create a new conf file for Apache

vim /etc/apache2/conf-available/remoteip.conf

and add

<IfModule mod_remoteip.c>
    RemoteIPHeader X-Forwarded-For
    RemoteIPTrustedProxy 127.0.0.1
</IfModule>

Add active this conf with

a2enconf remoteip

restart apache

service apache2 restart

And now apache logs and $SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] have the real IP ;-)

Thanks!

Thanks. Have apache serving webdav behind nginx proxy. This worked great for logging the origin IP address to apache's error.log file so that fail2ban could see any offending bad-login IP (rather than the localhost all the time). Used in combination with the correct nginx proxying header: proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;

Would be nice to add module checking in the /etc/apache2/conf-available/remoteip.conf:

<IfModule mod_remoteip.c>
    RemoteIPHeader X-Forwarded-For
    RemoteIPTrustedProxy 127.0.0.1
</IfModule>

I have checked and it works.

Thank you so much.

For me only works on /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/remoteip.conf

Not work for me I have router

Thanks! :) Works..finally.

Nginx Proxy on Front redirecting to Apache2 WWW Server over Wireguard VPN :)

10.VPN.VPN.1 - - [25/Apr/2024:16:55:06 +0200] "GET /info.php HTTP/1.1" 200 26432 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
109.173.PUBLIC.IP - - [25/Apr/2024:16:55:52 +0200] "GET /info.php HTTP/1.1" 200 26401 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"