how to enable x-forwarded-for in perlbal (fwd)

Todd Lipcon todd at amiestreet.com
Tue Apr 22 03:59:04 UTC 2008


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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:55:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Todd Lipcon <todd at amiestreet.com>
To: Hendra <hendra at oraclelinux.org>
Cc: perlbal at lists.danga.com
Subject: Re: how to enable x-forwarded-for in perlbal

Hi Hendra,

X-Forwarded-For is enabled by default. What exactly are you trying to 
accomplish? If you're trying to fix the IPs in the access log, you'll have to 
modify the LogFormat you're using to show the X-Forwarded-For header instead of 
the remote address. Something like:

CustomLog /path/to/access.log "%{X-Forwarded-For}i %l %u %t \\"%r\\" %>s %b"

Hope that helps,
-Todd


On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Hendra wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I'm putting Perlbal (v1.70) in front of my Apache2 server and now all
> requests are shown as coming in from localhost (127.0.0.1), I understand
> that perlbal can forward the original client ip (X-Forwarded-For) but can't
> find the reference on enabling this.
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> Thanks,
> Hendra
>


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