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 :

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!