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Nginx reverse proxy IP forwarding

Posted on February 20, 2016

Does anyone know how do i forward the IP address of my visitors with nginx reverse proxy because i am getting the IP of my droplet :(. This is what i have for it:

        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP  $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;

I am using ubuntu 15.10



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I do have the same issues. I tried to use private networking from this tuturial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-node-js-application-for-production-on-ubuntu-14-04 . What application server you are using?

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