$_SERVER['remote_addr'] returns a private ip address

Question

I have a subscription to a pro offer at OVH. I think that the php environment isn't well configured because when I try to request the client IP with the environment it returns a private IP such as 10.X.X.X wich changes every refreshing.

I tried to print the entire environment to see if the public IP is stored anywhere else, but it is not.

Have you got any ideas where it might comes from ?

Thanks.

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 13 '16 at 14:33

seems like you are testing from your localhost. On your live server, the ip address should be properly displayed. Here is a simple function to further assist you:

function getUserIpAddress() {
        if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'])) {
            $ip = $_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];
        } elseif (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'])) {
            $ip = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];
        } else {
            $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
        }
        return $ip;
    }

$_SERVER['remote_addr'] returns a private ip address

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