Re: Reverse Proxy Question

[Mark Montague <mark@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On March 14, 2011 15:29 , Jeff Poling <jpoling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We have a web server that is behind an apache server that uses mod_proxy in a reverse proxy configuration.  There is a business requirement that the backend application see the actual client IP address, not the proxy IP.  Is there a configuration setting to allow that?

The backend will always see the client IP address, which is passed to the backend in the X-Forwarded-For HTTP header.  See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html#x-headers

This only applies if the backend is using HTTP to talk to the proxy.  If the backend is using some other protocol, let us know what it is.

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  Mark Montague
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