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Correcting IP address of PHP behind a reverse proxy
By admin | November 14, 2010
As described in our previous post, normally the PHP REMOTE_HOST variable only appears as the address of the trusted proxy server. As was also described in the past, this messes up all of the PHP scripts not explicitly designed to work with REMOTE_HOST. But now we have a solution for this – the apache mod_rpaf. This mod is capable of changing the IP variables in the server superglobal to the actual IP.
Prerequisites
Install the libapache2-mod-rpaf:
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-rpaf
Procedure
- Open /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and add the following text, replacing 1.2.3.4 with the name of your trusted proxy server:
<IfModule mod_rpaf.c> RPAFenable On RPAFsethostname On RPAFproxy_ips 1.2.3.4 </IfModule>
- Save the file and restart the Apache server:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Note: If you are getting 502 Bad Gateway errors coming out of your gateway and you are using IIS, disable the TCP port forwarding in IIS Admin. It can be found in the ARR page -> Proxy. Then uncheck “include client TCP numbers”.
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