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

Jason Clifford jason at ukfsn.org
Mon Sep 25 10:43:31 UTC 2006


On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Richard Jones wrote:

> Since I posted this, I've discovered X-Forwarded-For (XFF [1]) and
> mod_proxy_add_forward.c [2].  Unfortunately mod_proxy doesn't support
> XFF, and mod_proxy_add_forward seems to be deprecated, although I'm
> not sure exactly why.  In any case I'll have to hack WordPress and the
> wiki to support these ...

Maybe mod_headers will do the trick. 

Covalent offered a product to do what you want and they now point people 
at the mod_headers module or so it seems.

Jason
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