X-Real-Ip/X-Forwarded-For support?

[rayarachelian]

I'm running SMF 2.0.15 in Docker behind an nginx proxy, which adds X-Forwarded-For and X-Real-Ip headers, however SMF shows all users as logged in from the docker proxy IP (172.16.x.x.)

How do I get it to recognize the X-Forwarded-For or X-Real-Ip headers and use those for users instead?

I'm using a modified version of this repo: hxxp:github.com/vortexau/SMF-Docker [nonactive] which creates an Apache 2 instance where the default website is pointing at /var/www/html inside the container.

On the outside, nginx does a reverse proxy to the container and adds these headers.

[vbgamer45]

This might be hepful https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170706-How-do-I-restore-original-visitor-IP-with-Nginx-

You can also add to your settings.php a php code that checks if those headers are set then overwrite the php ip address.

[rayarachelian]

This seems to have worked perfectly with only minor changes on the apache side. (For anyone else reading this, again, nginx is on the outside acting as a reverse proxy, apache is on the inside of the Docker container, and runs SMF)

1. enable remoteip by linking mods-available/remoteip to mods-enabled.
2. add RemoteIPHeader X-Real-IP to httpd.conf