# How to fix all traffic showing as coming from Cloudflare servers instead of the user's browser IP

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-ip/399954
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** unsupported-install, cloudflare
**Created:** [April 4, 2026, 6:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-ip/399954 "2026-04-04T18:56:20Z")
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### Author: ![ProxyTracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/proxytracer/32/549480_2.png) [@ProxyTracer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ProxyTracer)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2026, 11:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-ip/399954/4 "2026-04-04T23:00:02Z")

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Can you edit the nginx configuration file directly? If so, make the changes suggested [here](https://github.com/proxytracer/discourse-proxytracer/?#multi-layer-proxy-architecture-cloudflare--local-reverse-proxy). And now after reloading the nginx service it should be working. Hope this helps!

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