Checking Proxy Set Header Forwaded By Nginx Reverse Proxy (django App)

I'm using nginx as reverse proxy with gunicorn for my Django app, and am new to webserver configuration. My app has a postgres backend, and the machine hosting it has Ubuntu 14.04

Solution 1:

All you have to do is print out request.META at the Django project level to see what all of those values are being set to. This automatically happens for you if you get an error and debug is set to True (just scroll down, you'll see a big table with all request.META values populated therein).

Or you can print it yourself from your views.py, or if that doesn't work, then from any middleware you have. You can even write custom middleware for this. Let me know if you need further clarification on this, I can give you basic code snippets too.

Solution 2:

This question was posted a long time ago but since I landed here when needed help, below are some code which I ended up using to attain the same goal for the help of other people.

def getClientIP(request):
    x_forwarded_for = request.META.get('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR')
    ifx_forwarded_for:
        ip = x_forwarded_for.split(',')[-1].strip()
    else:
        ip = request.META.get('REMOTE_ADDR')
    return ip