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| If you have a server behind a loadbalancer then your web servers access logs may not log the correct IP address, they may log localhost or the ipaddress of the load balancer. Some hosting companies such as Rackspace have their LoadBalancer add a specific header called X-Forwarded-For headers. You can make a few changes to your Apache or nginx config files and vhosts to resolve this issue. Your log files should then read correctly. | If you have a server behind a loadbalancer then your web servers access logs may not log the correct IP address, they may log localhost or the ipaddress of the load balancer. Some hosting companies such as Rackspace have their LoadBalancer add a specific header called X-Forwarded-For headers. You can make a few changes to your Apache or nginx config files and vhosts to resolve this issue. Your log files should then read correctly. | ||
| - | Note: If you have SSL termination on your server then the following guides will not work. A load balancer is not able to inject a FORWARDED_TO header into the request because it is not able to decrypt and re-encrypt the packets. | + | **__Note:__** If you have SSL termination on your server then the following guides |
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