[Mageia-sysadm] forums and reverse proxy

[Romain d'Alverny]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 14:28, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
> Le vendredi 18 mars 2011 à 14:04 +0100, Pascal Terjan a écrit :
>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 09:54, Maât <maat-ml at vilarem.net> wrote:
>> > Hi there,
>> >
>> > i've found a tiny but painful problem : all users are seens coming from internel proxy ip.
>> >
>> > i hope this is easy to solve because atm we are unable to differenciate upers ip... this will prevent us from using many moderation tools like ip banning or multiple accounts detection :-(
>> >
>> > Please help/comment/advice...
>>
>> I would expect such proxy to set a X-Forwarded-For header
>
> It does :
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html#x-headers

So that would be for phpbb to take this into account (and I believe
that would be an upstreamable patch). We did use this for mdv wiki as
it was behind at least one level of proxy-cache.

Maat do you have a pointer of where this would be used in the code already?

Romain