Hello guys, Why it shows my location as the UK while I am in India? Am I missing something in the settings? [location]

Are you using some kind of VPN? I think the Location is based on the IP that is used for the particular login.

No I am not using any VPN service. But I am using cloudflare for my site. Is that a problem?

I don’t know if Cloudflare is affecting the lookup. Discourse is using MaxMind, so you can try for yourself by entering your IP address at GeoIP web services demo | MaxMind Demo MaxMind’s GeoIP web services by entering up to 25 IP addresses. Instantly access IP geolocation and IP intelligence data.

Maxmind shows my exact location. Seems like Cloudflare datacenters issue to me, but not sure. [Screenshot%20from%202018-12-16%2018-05-04]

So Your site is behind cloudflare?

Yes..for almost 1 year without any problem.

Did You include the cloudflare template in your yml file?

I don’t think it has anything to do with Cloudflare, but just to be sure, can you go to your profile and look at the list of last used devices? The locations in that list have a tooltip with the IP address. Is it showing the correct IP address? My guess is that the MaxMind DB with IP addresses is out of date. You could try rebuilding the container. @nbianca Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe there is no background job for regularly updating that database and I’m not sure if Discourse picks up the changes when the maxminddb:get rake task is executed without a restart.

This is what’s shown in my profile. Why is it showing Singapore? :cold_face: [security] When I click on the log out all, my session was logged out and I have to login again. Tried rebuilding the app, then logged out and log in again, but still the same.

No, I haven’t included the cloudflare template in yml file.

Security tab shows me a different location due to Cloudflare

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fhe (Florian) December 16, 2018, 12:20pm 4

I don’t know if Cloudflare is affecting the lookup. Discourse is using MaxMind, so you can try for yourself by entering your IP address at

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