I’m using the Kakumei theme, and am located behind a load-balancer.

All posts show the IP address as the IP address of the load-balancer rather than the poster. I know the load-balancer does send the poster’s IP address in the X-Forwarded-For HTTP Header field.

Is it possible to get bbPress to pull out this IP address, rather than the load-balancer’s IP address?

[@zaerl Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

Locate the function bb_insert_post in file functions.bb-posts.php, then find the line:

$ip_address = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

The real (*cough*) IP of the user can be retrieved with this function:

function get_real_ip()

{

$ip = '';

$u = 'unknown';



if(($ip = getenv('HTTP_CLIENT_IP')) && strcasecmp($ip, $u)) {}

elseif(($ip = getenv('REMOTE_ADDR')) && strcasecmp($ip, $u)) {}

elseif(($ip = getenv('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR')) && strcasecmp($ip, $u)) {}

elseif(isset($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) && ($ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) && strcasecmp($ip, $u)) {}

else return $u;



return $ip;

}

[@zaerl Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

Locate the function bb_insert_post in file functions.bb-posts.php, then find the line:

$ip_address = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

The real (*cough*) IP of the user can be retrieved with this function:

function get_real_ip()

{

$ip = '';

$u = 'unknown';



if(($ip = getenv('HTTP_CLIENT_IP')) && strcasecmp($ip, $u)) {}

elseif(($ip = getenv('REMOTE_ADDR')) && strcasecmp($ip, $u)) {}

elseif(($ip = getenv('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR')) && strcasecmp($ip, $u)) {}

elseif(isset($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) && ($ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) && strcasecmp($ip, $u)) {}

else return $u;



return $ip;

}