How to use mod_remoteip to get client IP address when Apache httpd is behind a proxy server or load balancer
Issue
- We have our Apache httpd web server behind a load balancer. Since the remote address gets changed by that of the balancer, how can we get the actual remote client IP in the logs or configure a
Requires ip
security directive?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- 7+
- Red Hat Software Collections (RHSCL)
- 2.0+
- Red Hat JBoss Web Server (JWS)
- 3.0+
- JBoss Core Services (JBCS)
- 2.4.23+
- Apache httpd
- 2.4
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