# 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")\
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**Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 6:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-and-real-ip/291736/1 "2024-01-16T06:26:02Z")

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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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