Hi, I have researched quite a lot but nothing seems to work with me. I have a discourse setup installed. And I have this remote reverse proxy server that acts as a HTTPS layer between the user and the main discourse server.. [image] I have included these revers proxy settings properly.. But why…

The nginx running in the container does not trust headers set by the proxy. [image] X-Forwarded-For proxy tag not recognized by Discourse? Self-hosting Take a look at the templates/cloudflare.template.yml file. Basically, you need to insert set_real_ip_from di…

Hi @schleifer , Can you guide me on this? I have looked into these files, seems too fragile to manipulate on a production environment. Thanks!

If you have a single IP for the proxy, something like: - replace: filename: /etc/nginx/conf.d/discourse.conf from: "types {" to: | set_real_ip_from 192.168.0.1; real_ip_header X-Forwarded-For; real_ip_recursive on; types {

[image] PhoenixPeca: I have included these revers proxy settings properly… But why does it still show my Reverse Proxy server’s IP Address (hostname to be specific) Probably you need to remove the same definitions from docker, modify your app.yml and rebuild: run: - exec: echo "Beginning o…

Last IP shows Reverse Proxy IP address

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riking (Kane York) March 31, 2019, 3:48am 4

You only need the last part - inserting set_real_ip_from <CIDR>; to the nginx.conf. The other parts are more complicated to support Cloudflare adding new IPs.

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