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jordan
jordan

Reputation: 10722

Nodejs, Express - Trying to get client IP from request object - shows 127.0.0.1

I'm connecting to my app, which is running on an AWS EC2 instance. I'm trying to get the client IP address but it is showing up as 127.0.0.1

I've tried retrieving it with both req.ip and req.connection.remoteAddress. Is there a way to get the IP address that's not the localhost IP?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3015

Answers (1)

Emmett
Emmett

Reputation: 14327

If you're proxying requests through something like Nginx, then you can configure express to respect the X-Forwarded-For header when getting req.ip:

app.set('trust proxy', 'loopback');

http://expressjs.com/api.html#app.set

Upvotes: 7

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