By sudeep135
I am attempting to fetch the real IP of the visitor on a Flask application that I am serving using Nginx server blocks on Ubuntu, but I get the same IP with all the visitors (my droplet’s IP). How do I fix this?
This is my current server config for my application.
server {
listen 80;
server_name subdomain.mysite.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://0.0.0.0:8080;
proxy_redirect http://0.0.0.0:8080 http://subdomain.mysite.com;
}
}
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@sudeep135
You need to setup the x-forwarded-for header, then read this header in your flask app to get the client’s real ip address.
Check out this tutorial for more info.
Hope this helps.
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