How to pass the remote IP to a proxied service? - Nginx

Question

I'm running a service in localhost at 127.0.01:8000

and I'm proxying this by using:

proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;

Problem is that I need to pass the user's IP address to the service.

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Any ideas?

Answer 1

I send the real IP to django by setting a custom header:

proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;

Those headers are available in request.META

Answer 2

See http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRealIpModule