Question Kunena and Cloudflare

User posts come up with one of Cloudflare's IPs. I've tried installing Cloudflare's Joomla module, which fixed IPs in other parts of my website but Kunena still logs Cloudflare's IPs.

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I am having difficulty understanding the specific problem or question that you are asking and, in what way, there is something broken, defective or not working in Kunena that requires support.

Cloudflare acts as a proxy at the DNS level. To the webserver all the traffic appears to be coming from Cloudflare, but a module for the CMS or webserver allows it to see the real IP cloudflare is giving it. When I installed the Joomla module components of my website which previously recorded Cloudflare's IPs started recording the user's actual IPs. Kunena is the exception as it appears to still be recording Cloudflare's IPs.

Here's my report log:

Database collation check: The collation of your table fields are correct

Legacy mode: Enabled | Joomla! SEF: Enabled | Joomla! SEF rewrite: Enabled | FTP layer: Disabled |

This message contains confidential information

htaccess: Exists | PHP environment: Max execution time: 30 seconds | Max execution memory: 100M | Max file upload: 50M

Joomla default template details : rhuk_milkyway | author: Andy Miller | version: 1.0.2 | creationdate: 11/20/06

Kunena default template details : Blue Eagle (default) | author: Kunena Team | version: 1.6.3 | creationdate: 2011-01-31

Kunena version detailled: Installed version: 1.6.3 | Build: 4344 | Version name: Parlare | Kunena detailled configuration:

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Third-party components: AlphaUserPoints: Disabled or not installed | CommunityBuilder: Installed (Version : 1.3.1) | Jomsocial: Disabled or not installed | UddeIm: Installed (Version : 2.2)

Third-party SEF components: sh404sef: Disabled or not installed | ARTIO JoomSEF: Disabled or not installed | AceSEF: Disabled or not installed

Plugins: System - Mootools12: Disabled | System - Mootools Upgrade: Enabled | JFirePHP: Disabled or not installed | Kunena Discuss: Disabled or not installed | Kunena Search: Disabled or not installed | My Kunena Forum Menu: Disabled or not installed | My Kunena Forum Posts: Disabled or not installed

Modules: Kunena Latest: Disabled or not installed | Kunena Stats: Disabled or not installed | Kunena Login: Enabled (Version : 1.6.2)

So basically, How can I get Kunena to show the user's real IP?

I've found this: support.cloudflare.com/kb/troubleshootin...ith-a-php-forum-site

But I don't know where this would go.

I stuck it in joomla's root index.php and it fixed my issue thank you

C0n wrote: I stuck it in joomla's root index.php and it fixed my issue thank you

Code:

if ($_SERVER["HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP"]) { $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] = $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP"]; }

Thanks for the tip.

EDIT: It doesn't seem to have worked for me, I copied the code into index.php but the users are still coming up with Cloudflare's IPs.

If your looking at a whois online then yes it will display cloudflare ip's but in forum post's it should not also make sure you keep it seperate from the other joomla code in the index.php with opening and closing php tags. like so.

Thanks C0n, I got it to work and user posts are showing the user's IP now.