I recently migrated my forum to a much more performant host, and I am working towards high availability. in the reverse proxy I added the Forward Proto and For headers but the nginx configuration on the discourse only respected the Proto. I had to add under server: set_real_ip_from loadbalancerip…

[image] Eviepayne: I recently migrated my forum to a much more performant host, and I am working towards high availability. are you using a 2-containter build? i don’t think there is built-in env variable for custom load balancer IPs, because nginx doesn’t natively read those vars for the se…

I believe this is what you’re looking for: [image] Run other websites on the same machine as Discourse Self-Hosting @pfaffman edited this heavily 2022.02.24. Blame me if it’s broken. If you want to run other websites on the same machine as Discourse, you need…

No this guide explains how to setup an nginx socket that’s shared between the container and host. I’m trying to find a declarative way to include: set_real_ip_from loadbalancerip; real_ip_header X-Forwarded-For; In the nginx configuration in containers after rebuild.

You’re trying to add this to the container’s internal nginx? I believe that’s unnecessary because it’s added by default: config/nginx.sample.conf main # auth_basic on; # auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/htpasswd; # proxy…

[image] Eviepayne: set_real_ip_from loadbalancerip; This line is needed for that to work. Without it all the requests are still the loadbalancer IP. I know because my discourse was down for 429 errors. In case it’s not clear this is my infra: user > haproxy > discourse Discourse of cours…

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I believe this is what you’re looking for:

Topic		Replies	Views
Last IP shows Reverse Proxy IP address Support	5	2493	May 22, 2019
Rate Limiting w/ Reverse Proxy Self-hosting	3	719	November 16, 2021
Discourse reports user ips as the load balancer Development	8	1537	June 2, 2016
Discourse socketed: Nginx in front of discourse: no IP adresses Self-hosting	5	2723	September 5, 2018
Cloudflare Real-IP via Apache Self-hosting	3	1326	April 5, 2019

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