How to get REMOTE_ADDR if your using Vapor

This drove me crazy for a while so figured I would make a post about. If this post will save someone else some time then great!

When deploying Vapor, your app is behind proxy servers. So REMOTE_ADDR will always be a proxy address.

use $request->header('x-vapor-source-ip') instead of $request->ip() ...

for my local dev I did this to get around x-vapor-source-ip not available locally.

$ipTranker->ip_address = $request->header('x-vapor-source-ip') ? $request->header('x-vapor-source-ip') : $request->ip();

Seems to work just great for me... back to work now... lol

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Right on. I was scratching my head over that one too! Took me hours to figure it out.

Unfortunately, there are still a lot of mysteries with using Vapor. So little resources out there, but I do love it.

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