# CloudFlare and Real IP
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-and-real-ip/291736
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [January 16, 2024, 6:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-and-real-ip/291736 "2024-01-16T06:26:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@bitwelder](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bitwelder)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2024, 6:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-and-real-ip/291736/1 "2024-01-16T06:26:02Z")
I have been trying to get real ips to show up in Discourse without much success. I have add the cloudflare yml to my setup and have validated the discourse.conf in the container has the correct lines:
```plaintext
set_real_ip_from 173.245.48.0/20;
set_real_ip_from 103.21.244.0/22;
set_real_ip_from 103.22.200.0/22;
set_real_ip_from 103.31.4.0/22;
set_real_ip_from 141.101.64.0/18;
set_real_ip_from 108.162.192.0/18;
set_real_ip_from 190.93.240.0/20;
set_real_ip_from 188.114.96.0/20;
set_real_ip_from 197.234.240.0/22;
set_real_ip_from 198.41.128.0/17;
set_real_ip_from 162.158.0.0/15;
set_real_ip_from 104.16.0.0/13;
set_real_ip_from 104.24.0.0/14;
set_real_ip_from 172.64.0.0/13;
set_real_ip_from 131.0.72.0/22;
set_real_ip_from 2400:cb00::/32;
set_real_ip_from 2606:4700::/32;
set_real_ip_from 2803:f800::/32;
set_real_ip_from 2405:b500::/32;
set_real_ip_from 2405:8100::/32;
set_real_ip_from 2a06:98c0::/29;
set_real_ip_from 2c0f:f248::/32;
real_ip_header CF-Connecting-IP;
```
I have also validated that `$http_cf_connecting_ip` has the correct IP in the logs but for some reason `$remote_addr` is not being set properly. Has anyone else hit this?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2024, 4:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-and-real-ip/291736/2 "2024-01-16T16:49:09Z")
Maybe use the cloudflare template?
add
```plaintext
- "templates/cloudflare.template.yml"
```
to your `app.yml` where the other templates are.
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### Author:  [@bitwelder](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bitwelder)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2024, 4:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-and-real-ip/291736/3 "2024-01-16T16:50:22Z")
Thanks for the response! I am using the cloudflare template. After further digging it appears that it is not working because all remote\_addr coming into nginx are Docker addresses. I am trying to diagnose why this is.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2024, 4:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-and-real-ip/291736/4 "2024-01-16T16:51:23Z")
Are you also using a local reverse proxy server? If so, you’ll need to add that address to your `set_real_ip` config (and maybe the reverse proxy will handle the cloudflare stuff?)
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### Author:  [@bitwelder](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bitwelder)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-and-real-ip/291736/5 "2024-01-16T17:03:50Z")
I am not intentionally running a reverse proxy but I have specified a specific IP for exposing ports in my app.yml.
```plaintext
expose:
- "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80:80" # http
- "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:443:443" # https
```
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2024, 5:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-and-real-ip/291736/6 "2024-01-16T17:44:15Z")
I don’t know. Maybe you need to include some docker IPs?
Is the IP that’s getting displayed by Discourse a docker ip?
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2024, 5:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-and-real-ip/291736/7 "2024-01-16T17:46:34Z")
> [@bitwelder](#):
>
> I am not intentionally running a reverse proxy
Did you follow the [standard install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true)? This usually works out of the box with the template.
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### Author:  [@bitwelder](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bitwelder)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2024, 4:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-and-real-ip/291736/8 "2024-01-17T16:12:50Z")
Thank you both for the help! It ended up that Immunify360 on our VPS was injecting itself as a proxy prior to the container. Adding the Docker IP to the set\_real\_ip\_from temporarily fixed the issue while I look into disabling Immunify.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-and-real-ip/291736/9 "2024-02-16T16:13:38Z")
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