[Gllug] Apache as web accelerator: forwarding the client's real IP address

[Jason Clifford]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Richard Jones wrote:

> This all works well.  However the problem is that the back-end web
> servers don't see the clients' real IP addresses.  This causes some
> problems - eg. in blocking rogue IPs, WordPress moderator requests
> (which contain the client IP), anonymous MediaWiki edits which record
> against the client IP, etc.  Because the back-end web servers are only
> connected to the web accelerator, they always report its address
> (ie. 10.x.x.x).

Does the Apache "Proxy Via" directive do this? I've read that it does.

Jason
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