it was resolved using this help": http://www.techstacks.com/howto/log-client-ip-and-xforwardedfor-ip-in-apache.html
________________________________ From: John Karr <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 9:51 PM Subject: RE: [users@httpd] wrong IP address in apache logs You may want to look at: reverse proxy add forward module for Apache (mod_rpaf). It cleaned up a big headache for me. You define a list of your possible proxy sources and what your x-forwarded header is, and it just takes care of it. The developer’s site is http://stderr.net/apache/rpaf/ Although maintained outside the Apache Project it has been available in Ubuntu since at least Hardy. (package name: libapache2-mod-rpaf). Also since 10.10 is no longer supported, you’ll need to upgrade your system to install any packages. From:Rajeev Prasad [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 7:49 PM To: apache list Subject: [users@httpd] wrong IP address in apache logs Hello, I am using authentication from another site in intranet (redirect user), but i am expecting the user's PC IP in the apache logs. I am not seeing that, I sometimes see VPN IP (when I come over VPN) or IP of a server, which is entirely different hardware. has no connection to mine. can anyone help understand and resolve this issue? None of the users coming to site show their PC IP address in log. I want to fix this ASAP. server: ubuntu 10.10 apache: 2.2.16 I have following in my site config, in virtual host config: ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/mywebsite.error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/mywebsite.access.log combined ty.
