I’m using Load Balancer and LAMP in my application.
But in a feature of my application it is necessary to get the true IP of who is accessing.
I tried with PHP in several ways like:
$ SERVER [‘HTTPCLIENT_IP’]
$ SERVER ['HTTPXFORWARDEDFOR’]
$ SERVER ['HTTPXFORWARDEDFOR’]
But none of these worked, I always get the Load Balancer IP. Can anybody help me?
Hey there,
You’ll need to enable proxy protocol for the load balancer to forward the client IP.
https://blog.digitalocean.com/load-balancers-now-support-proxy-protocol/
https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/load-balancers/how-to/create/#creating-the-load-balancer
If you continue having issues after enabling proxy protocol for your LB just let me know and I can offer additional advice based on the issue you are facing.
Regards,
Ethan Fox
Developer Support Engineer II - DigitalOcean
Thanks for the answer. I use apache in a ubuntu 16.04 droplet. The version of my apache is 2.4.18 and to use the RemoteIPProxyProtocol I need version 2.4.31 or newer. I looked and I did not find how to upgrade, could you help me?