Can't get the real IP address.

JntmIkun

My forum URL is https://minepixel.flarum.cloud

My website can’t get the real IP address.
I need to get the real user’s IP address, because this is very helpful for banning the user’s IP address.
The fake IP addresses:
fake-ip-addresses
My real IP address:
real-ip-address

SKevo

JntmIkun FreeFlarum uses Cloudflare under the hood, which masks the origin server’s IP address to prevent DDoS attacks (FreeFlarum’s server IP). I am not sure if Flarum has a way to fetch the IP from header containing the real IP address. But I’ll look into it and let you know.

Actually, if it masks just the server IP, then the user IP should be left intact? Not sure what mechanism to get the IP Flarum uses though

Edit: I’ve checked it, and it seems that the 172.69.195.21 IP indeed belongs to Cloudflare

14569

SKevo I saw a comment in FlarumCommunity https://discuss.flarum.org/d/34363-suspend-problem/5: If you set up your webserver to restore visitor IPs according to Cloudflare documentation, the Flarum features based on IP should work as intended.

SKevo

14569 thanks, I am aware of that. This will be worked on as soon as I have spare time (which is also the reason why I haven’t closed this discussion yet)

SKevo

This should be fixed now, and all forums should fetch client IPs correctly. If not, please let me know by flagging this post and I’ll unlock the topic.