That was it! I added "set_real_ip_from 127.0.0.1/32;" and now I'm getting
the results I expected. Thank you!


On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Richard Stanway <r1ch+nginx@teamliquid.net>
wrote:

> You're connecting to localhost (127.0.0.1) and your set_real_ip_from only
> accepts X-Forwarded-For from 172.0.0.0/8.
>
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 8:25 PM, CJ Ess <zxcvbn4038@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've been struggling all day with this, I'm missing something, hoping
>> someone can point out what I'm doing wrong w/ the realip module:
>>
>> nginx.conf:
>> ...
>> log_format xyz '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_iso8601] '
>> '"$request" $status $body_bytes_sent '
>> '"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent"
>> "$http_x_forwarded_for" $http_x_real_ip';
>>
>> access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log xyz;
>> ...
>> real_ip_header X-Forwarded-For;
>> real_ip_recursive on;
>> set_real_ip_from 172.0.0.0/8;
>> ...
>>
>>
>> Test command I'm running:
>> curl -v -v -v -H "Host: www.test.com" -H "X-Forwarded-For: 9.1.2.3,
>> 172.16.9.92" http://127.0.0.1/cheese
>>
>>
>> What I see in the error log:
>> 127.0.0.1 - - [2017-08-28T14:20:38-04:00] "GET /cheese HTTP/1.1" 502 166
>> "-" "curl/7.29.0" "9.1.2.3, 172.16.9.92" -
>>
>>
>> I'm expecting that either $remote_addr or $http_x_real_ip be 9.1.2.3, but
>> the former is 127.0.0.1 and the latter is null.
>>
>> I've tried two versions of Nginx including the latest, so pretty sure its
>> an issue with my config. The config test is successful, no errors in the
>> error log (level debug), the 502 status code is expected and shouldn't
>> impact the realip module.
>>
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