Jul 10, 2024
Configure apache to log the real client IP instead of cloudflare IP in http access logs (Wordpress)
If you are running a WordPress site and you have cloudflare setup, you may have noticed that the http access logs log the IP of cloudflare instead of the actual client IP. This is a guide to enable logging of the real client IP instead of the cloudflare IP in the apache2 logs. This was tested on a Ubuntu 20.04 machine + apache2 and traffic is proxied from cloudflare. – Install…