Help! problem with mongrel, request.remote_ip and lighttpd

Server Mongrel
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I have an existing rails application on lighttpd and I am trrying to
upgrade
to mongrel for the enhanced scalability it offers.

I am running mongrel 1.1.1, rails 1.2.5, lighttpd 1.4.13 and ruby 1.8.5

Everything is working great except request.remote_ip returns 127.0.0.1
or
192.168.0.102 (the internal network address of the server running
lighty).

I’ve seen some older posts about this problem and it appears lighttpd is
the
culprit. Will pound solve this problem?

Is there a way to get this working with lighttpd or do I need to use
another
webserver?

Please help!

Thanks,
Raj.

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I have the same problem on Apache 2.2 + load_balancer + mongrel 1.1.1.
So, i think it is mongrel 1.1.1 problem. Because mongrel 1.0.1 work
fine.

Rajiv S. wrote:

Is there a way to get this working with lighttpd or do I need to use
another
webserver?

Please help!

Thanks,
Raj.

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On Nov 23, 2007 5:22 PM, Rajiv S. [email protected] wrote:

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Raj,

Lighttpd would be the culprit on that yes, I don’t use it personally so
…

anyone else know how to pass the domain through when using lighttpd?

~Wayne

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Wayne,

Thanks for the response. I found that lighttpd forwards the remote
address in
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR.

I was able access it by using
request.env[‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR’] in the rails application.

On November 27, 2007 09:35:04 pm Wayne E. Seguin wrote:

Thanks,
Raj.

Raj,

Lighttpd would be the culprit on that yes, I don’t use it personally so
…

anyone else know how to pass the domain through when using lighttpd?

~Wayne
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On Nov 28, 2007 12:38 AM, Rajiv S. [email protected] wrote:

Wayne,

Thanks for the response. I found that lighttpd forwards the remote address
in
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR.

I was able access it by using
request.env[‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR’] in the rails application.

Raj,

Awesome, Thank you for posting your solution back to the list!

~Wayne