If you’re using Cloudflare in front of your Cloudways site, you’ll notice that all the visitors come through with the IP address of 127.0.0.1. It’s easy enough to fix this. Cloudways posted a useful article about it, but it misses one critical thing – the WordPress configuration!
First, head to your server configuration on Cloudways, and choose Settings & Packages > Advanced:
Scroll down until you fine the WAF Module setting, and change that to Cloudflare:
You’ll also need to restart your Apache service.
Then, for each of your WordPress sites, you’ll need to add this code to your wp-config.php :
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if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'])) { $xffaddrs = explode(',',$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']); $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] = $xffaddrs[0]; } |
Once you’ve done that, look in the logs, or post yourself a test comment to verify that the IP address is coming through correctly. Should be all good!
Thank you for sharing it!
I was analyzing the traffic for a customer that is hosted on CloudWays and I didn’t understood what was going on.