# Possible to not log user IP addresses?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-not-log-user-ip-addresses/46502>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [27 يونيو 2016، 11:52ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-not-log-user-ip-addresses/46502 "2016-06-27T11:52:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![elijah](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elijah/32/104055_2.png) [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)\
**Post date:** [20 أغسطس 2017، 5:11ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-not-log-user-ip-addresses/46502/14 "2017-08-20T05:11:17Z")

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All of the solutions here work outside of Discourse, changing how nginx, the http software used, understands the IP address (and Discourse then will trust the value received from nginx). None of the solutions here look “fully baked”. So the instructions you want don’t exist.

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