There’s a variety of Discourse/Cloudflare topics about but I can’t find any specific to my issue. We get spam account or users that need to be IP banned occasionally, but then this blocks other users given the IPs are being shared on account of the site running through Cloudflare. Is there a recom…

There’s no way around this simply because of how CloudFlare is designed. I mean, there is, but you’re effectively disabling CloudFlare’s DDoS protection, caching, etc. CloudFlare is at its heart an nginx reverse proxy. Traffic from your users go to their servers which are extremely beafy. These ser…

[صورة] Watercolor_Games: Seems as though you can actually get the client’s IP address in nginx and pump it through to Discourse using proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remoteaddress; or whatever variable the client IP address is in, that should help with setups like mine when Cloudflare is disabled. …

[صورة] codinghorror: Well yes you kinda buried the lede there. :wink: Heh, actually can’t tell what that means (if it’s good or bad) :stuck_out_tongue: Looked it up on Google and the definition seems like the phrase means I did something bad. If that’s the case I apologize. :slight_smile:

Burying the lede means you put the most important part at the bottom, instead of where it should be, at the top, where people will read it first.

Ahh. I guess I have a tendency to do that a lot without realizing it :slight_smile:

[صورة] Watercolor_Games: Edit 2: Seems as though you can actually get the client’s IP address in nginx and pump it through to Discourse using proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remoteaddress; or whatever variable the client IP address is in, that should help with setups like mine when Cloudflare is dis…

[صورة] SimeonGriggs: Yeah this looks like the answer … but I’m yet to find a good guide on how to set this up. If only someone created an easy to use config file for the Discourse launcher script… discourse_docker/templates/cloudflare.template.yml at master · discourse/discourse_docker · GitH…

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) 1 يونيو 2018، 11:47م 2

There is a way to get the native IP of the user, I think:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-cloudflare-ips-instead-of-clients-ip/12479

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