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nginx proxy protocol how to setup this with elb in front of it.

Posted February 2, 2017 2.8k views
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need your help on nginx proxy protocol as i am not getting visitor client ip. instead getting elb’s ip In nginx logs ec2 server(nginx) ->aws elb proxy_protocol is enabled on elb. when setting same parameter in nginx.conf file it stop listening on 80 and 443 and website not accessible at all. kindly help.

i am not able to get visitor client ip on my website which runs on ec2 instance nginx web server.

when i configure proxy_protocol it dont listen on 80 and 443 and when i remove it it starts listening again and always gives private ip’s generated from aws elb.

kindly help.

Thanks,
Rakesh

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  • svikram1707 July 31, 2018
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    upstream tarmac {
    server internal-BAck-123456789.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com;}

    server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;

    if ($http_x_forwarded_proto != 'https') {
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}

add_header X-Powered-By kratos;

    }

    server {
    listen 443 ssl defaultserver;
    listen [::]:443 ssl default    server;
    server_name example.com;

    sslcertificate /home/deploy/apps/examplecom.pem;
    sslcertificatekey /home/deploy/genus/genusappcom.key;
    ssl    protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
    sslpreferserverciphers on;
    ssl    ciphers AES256+EECDH:AES256+EDH:!aNULL;

    #root /dev/null;
    accesslog /var/log/nginx/nginx.access.log;
    error    log /var/log/nginx/nginx.error.log;

    location / {
    proxysetheader X-Scheme $scheme;
    proxysetheader X-Forwarded-Proto https;
    proxysetheader X-Forwarded-For $proxyaddxforwardedfor;
    proxysetheader Host $httphost;
    proxy    setheader Accept-Encoding “”;
    proxy    setheader X-Real-IP $remoteaddr;
    #proxyredirect off;
    proxy    ignoreclientabort on;

    proxy_pass https://tarmac
add_header X-Powered-By kratos3;

    }

    Hi All ,
    I am trying to setup ALB->NGINX->ALB->APACHE, the above is nginx config it work fine we ALB is removed in front nginx , but fails to load when ALB attached in front of nginx can help me out in this, please

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jtittle1 February 2, 2017

@aroraisonline

We’d need to see your configuration before we can see where the issue is. If you’d kindly post the server block(s) in question, we can take a closer look at them and see where the issue is.

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