CloudFlare User True IP Easy Apache 4 CentOS 7 /cPanel 78

[Kilberz]

Hi Everyone,

Please go easy, I've searched and found many conflicting posts on this and lots of them I found are no longer working solutions.

I'm trying to find a way to easily configure the server (cPanel 78 / CentOS 7) so that any site hosted be it behind CloudFlare or not will always reflect the users true IP.

I installed ea-apache24-devel then https://www.cloudflare.com/static/misc/mod_cloudflare/mod_cloudflare.c and ran apxs -a -i -c mod_cloudflare.c

This seemed like a working solution for some but has not given me what I need to the best of my knowledge / as far as I can see still got an internal 192.* IP.

Any help would be awesome, thank you.

Jason.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello Jason,

You can revert the initial steps you took and instead install mod_remoteip with EasyApache 4 using the following command:

yum install ea-apache24-mod_remoteip

Once you do this, there's a post on the link below with an example of how to configure it to log the IP address of the visitor instead of the CloudFlare IP:

mod_cloudflare vs mod_remoteip

Thank you.

 

[Kilberz]

Thank you for the response!

How would I revert my prior actions?

 

[cPanelMichael]

I installed ea-apache24-devel then https://www.cloudflare.com/static/misc/mod_cloudflare/mod_cloudflare.c and ran apxs -a -i -c mod_cloudflare.c

How would I revert my prior actions?

You can remove the module from the /usr/lib64/apache2/modules/ directory, remove mod_cloudflare.conf, and then restart Apache. Here's an example:

# mkdir /root/cloudflare
# mv /usr/lib64/apache2/modules/mod_cloudflare.so /root/cloudflare/
# mv /etc/apache2/conf.modules.d/mod_cloudflare.conf /root/cloudflare/
# /scripts/restartsrv_httpd

Keep in mind this is untested because it's a custom module.

Thank you.