I use cloudflare for my forum for multiple reasons, but I want to get the real IP of my visitors so I can get accurate data of how many people are signed up with that IP address, and so IP banning, etc works. Is there any way to do this?

You need to add cloudflare.template.yml to your app.yml file templates section.

[image] Falco: cloudflare.template.yml Actually, now when I try to visit my website the web server is down?

What is the error? What is the content of the log files?

If I visit the forum it just gives me a Error 521 Web server down. This is what was in the current log file: 2021-08-11 12:14:46.898 UTC [556] LOG: starting PostgreSQL 13.3 (Debian 13.3-1.pgdg100+1) on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Debian 8.3.0-6) 8.3.0, 64-bit 2021-08-11 12:14:46.899 UTC…

That is the database log. Can you check the logs at /var/discourse/shared/standalone/log/var-log/nginx/error.log ?

error.zip (123.2 KB) The error.log file is in this zip file, It’s mostly just the same thing. (I can’t post the .log file because it’s not supported, and everything in the error.log file as its a super large amount of text)

Alright, thank you for the help!

I’m getting the same issue, glad there is a solution here :slight_smile: Weird thing is that it seems to only be affecting rebuilds done today. Other servers (same Discourse version - Stable 2.7.7) are running ok. Though started getting some strange errors recently on a few forums (not after an up…

[image] Faizan_Zahid: @markersocial my site is running on cloudflare if i remove that line, what would happen to my site? As far as I know, people will have their registration and recently used IPs logged as Cloudflare IPs instead of their real IPs. So if you ban someone, the Cloudflare IPs w…

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Falco (Falco) August 11, 2021, 10:50pm 8

Looks like the cloudflare template is broken at the moment. Last update was in 2016. Please remove it and rebuild. I will take a look at fixing it, time permiting.

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