https://www.question2answer.org/qa/tag/x-forwarded-for Powered by Question2Answer https://www.question2answer.org/qa/33322/how-to-make-view-counts-work-behind-reverse-proxy-like-nginx <p> My q2a server is deployed on a different server, receiving requests from an nginx proxy that is on its own server, so the only client IP that q2a sees is the nginx server's IP. &nbsp;This results in view counts not incrementing. &nbsp;The requests that come into q2a could have X-Forwarded-For or X-Real-IP headers, but q2a doesn't use them.</p> <p> Is there a way to configure this, or places in the code I can start looking to make modifications?</p> <p> Note: I took a look at <a href="http://www.question2answer.org/qa/28145/how-get-the-users-when-using-proxy-like-cloudflare-and-varnish" rel="nofollow">this question</a>, but I'm not sure if it applies to my case, since my nginx and q2a servers are on different servers w/ different IPs. &nbsp;Also, assume it's not an option for me to install nginx on the q2a server to do the client IP rewriting,</p> Q2A Core https://www.question2answer.org/qa/33322/how-to-make-view-counts-work-behind-reverse-proxy-like-nginx Fri, 04 Apr 2014 13:31:46 +0000