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

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 11:45:29AM +0100, 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 ...

Duh, well I guess it'd be deprecated because mod_proxy is now sending
X-Forwarded-For headers ...  Don't know how I didn't spot that last
time I looked at the traced packets.  Anyhow, just need to hack
WordPress and then it should work.  There seem to be modules for
WordPress to support this.

Rich.

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