How to pass the remote IP to a proxied service? - Nginx

RadiantHex picture RadiantHex · Feb 2, 2011 · Viewed 10.8k times · Source

I'm running a service in localhost at 127.0.01:8000

and I'm proxying this by using:

proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;

Problem is that I need to pass the user's IP address to the service.


Any ideas?

Answer

Yuji 'Tomita' Tomita picture Yuji 'Tomita' Tomita · Feb 2, 2011

I send the real IP to django by setting a custom header:

proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;

Those headers are available in request.META