Hello! I am having an issue with my forums, and I wouldn’t like for any IP to be logged any time an user logs in, could someone instruct me how to do this?
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The discussion revolves around disabling IP logging on a website. Bit0101 initially asks how to prevent IP logging when users log in or register. However, it’s unclear if this is possible, as pfaffman points out that not recording IPs would make it difficult to block IP addresses. Mevo provides a link to a previous discussion on the topic, which suggests using an external reverse proxy or tweaking internal nginx settings to mask IP addresses. Bit0101 confirms that they do not want to log IP addresses, and pfaffman reiterates the possible solutions, including using an external reverse proxy or tweaking nginx settings, although the latter would still store IPs in nginx logs temporarily.
User IP addresses are already visible via /admin. You can pull together a report of all latest user IP addresses via the data explorer plugin.
Do you want to see the current IP, or all historic IPs for a user?
It’ll be pretty hard to turn off IP logging. It would be hard, for example, to block IP addreses if you’re not recording them.
I guess that’s what he wants (NOT log IPs). The question is not 100% clear, but it seems to be his wish (to be confirmed). Like many things, this already came up in the past:
No, I would like for my website to not log any IP addreses any time a person enters my website and registers or logs in
The linked topic recommends using an external reverse proxy that’s intentionally mis-configured to not pass on the IP address. It might be possible to tweak the internal nginx to mask the IP. It’d still be in the nginx logs for some amount of time.