# IP logging on my site

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/ip-logging-on-my-site/170213>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [November 15, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ip-logging-on-my-site/170213 "2020-11-15T18:13:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ip-logging-on-my-site/170213/6 "2020-11-16T16:49:01Z")

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The linked topic recommends using an external reverse proxy that’s intentionally mis-configured to not pass on the IP address. It might be possible to tweak the internal nginx to mask the IP. It’d still be in the nginx logs for some amount of time.

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