REMOTE_ADDR not getting sent to Django using nginx & tornado

django, nginx, tornado

Solution

Try this one:

location / {
    proxy_pass http://frontends;
    proxy_pass_header Server;
    proxy_redirect off;
    proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Scheme $scheme;
    proxy_set_header REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr;
}

Just add `proxy_set_header REMOTE_ADDR` and it should be work well.

Tried with:

- Django 1.5.4

- Nginx 1.4.3

- Tornado 2.2.1

Problem

So I got a simple setup with nginx for static media and load balancing and tornado as webserver for django (4 servers running). My problem is remote_addr not getting passed on to django so I'm getting a KeyError: `article.ip = request.META['REMOTE_ADDR']` The remote address is getting sent through as X-Real-IP (HTTP_X_REAL_IP) thanks to the nginx.conf: ``` location / { proxy_pass_header Server; proxy_set_header Host $http_host; proxy_redirect false; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Scheme $scheme; proxy_pass http://frontends; } ``` As HTTP is prepended to the META key I can't just do proxy_set_header remote_addr $remote_addr. What I could do is read the X-Real-IP if no remote addr key is found but I'm curious if there's a smarter solution. Thanks!

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