Re: mod_extract_forwarded or mod_rpaf for Apache 2.2/2.4?

[Marten Lehmann <lehmann@xxxxxx>]

Thanks. Is anything like that available for Apache 2.2? Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 
only ships with Apache 2.2.22. I would have to build my own Apache with 
all dependencies just for this single module.

On 24.08.2012 00:19, Jeff Trawick wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Marten Lehmann <lehmann@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > is there any module like mod_extract_forwarded or mod_rpaf available for
> > Apache 2.2 or Apache 2.4?
> >
> > These modules change the value of REMOTE_ADDR to the original client IP
> > address behind a proxy request, that is given by the X-Forwarded-for header
> > - only if the request comes from trusted hosts of course. It makes rewriting
> > scripts to check for both REMOTE_ADDR and X-Forwarded-For head obsolete and
> > means you can continue to use .htaccess access permissions (Allow and Deny
> > from).
>
> httpd 2.4 has mod_remoteip for that purpose:
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_remoteip.html
>
> > Kind regards
> > Marten

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