cloudflare hiding visitor real ip
Why does cloudflare hides the customer real ip with one of theres and how can i still get the customers ip
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They don't hide it on purpose, it's just how Proxies work, they handle the visitor's request and make another to your origin (which has to be from their own IPs).
You can get their Real IP in the CF-Connecting-IP Header: https://developers.cloudflare.com/support/troubleshooting/restoring-visitor-ips/restoring-original-visitor-ips/
Restoring original visitor IPs · Cloudflare Support docs
When your website traffic is routed through the Cloudflare network , we act as a reverse proxy. This allows Cloudflare to speed up page load time by …
How can i configure that with nginx
check that link, there's a section for nginx. There's lots of other guides out there on the interwebs as well
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