Igor Sysoev wrote:
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 03:31:44PM +0100, Mike wrote:
Client requests are through virtual IP's that are handled by a hardware
load balancer, and then passed onto the real servers on the backend. The
source IP from the client is NAT'd so that all IP's appear to originate
from the load balancer. Responses from the real servers are sent back
via the load balancer to the client.
On the load balancer, I have enabled, in the configuration, that a
header be added by the load balancer and passed onto the server that is
running Nginx (version 0.5.19). The request header that is added and
passed out to the real server, is as follows:
Client-IP: myip
Is there any way to get Nginx to log this IP as the remote_addr or as
X-Forwarded-For so that the PHP application that Nginx is passing
requests to will log the real source IP? I realise that there have been
posts in the past but I have not been able to figure this out.
This header is available in nginx as $http_client_ip.
You can describe it in log_format instead of $remote_ip
and you pass it to FastCGI:
fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $http_client_ip;
Hi Igor
Thanks for the fast and accurate response.
I did a search against the $http_client_ip string on the wiki and
nothing showed up, so unless anyone has any objections, I'll add this
with my use-case scenario.
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