By ufirst
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 [‘HTTP_CLIENT_IP’]
$ _SERVER [‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR’]
$ _SERVER [‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR’]
But none of these worked, I always get the Load Balancer IP. Can anybody help me?
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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
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