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RP McMurphy
RP McMurphy

Reputation: 744

Visitor's IP not getting forwarded in www-version of the domain

I have a site where I am loading country-based dynamic contents. While Laravel's Request::ip() gets the proper(original) client IP if user visits the domain.com version, www.domain.com version gets the same IP for all visitors. I suppose it's the NS resolver server somewhere or something I am not aware of.

Is there a way to set the www version with redirects or something else so that $_SERVER['X-Forwarded-For'] or $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'] or $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] gets the original client's IP? It's a Cpanel, so I don't have all the independence on all the DNS components to forward everything as per my need with custom Apache or Nginx setup. I just need a bypass, so to speak, if any.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 32

Answers (1)

mister_cool_beans
mister_cool_beans

Reputation: 1533

It is generally a bad setup if you allow clints to access a website with two different URLs i.e. www and non-www. This is because Google sees these as two different websites and logs stats for them separately. This is of course not ideal if you want good SEO. You should re-direct all clients to one URL, choose either www or non-www.

To achieve this you can create a redirect rule in your server configuration files.

Upvotes: 1

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