I have an api gateway that's dockerized and uses nginx as a load balancer. I need to get the original client's ip address but it's not working, I keep getting the nginx ip (I know it's the nginx ip because if I make a request to it, I get the response from my app)
nginx.conf
# cache requests for 10m up to 10g with auto removal after 60m
proxy_cache_path /tmp/nginx_cache/ levels=1:2 keys_zone=backcache:10m max_size=10g
inactive=60m use_temp_path=off;
# allow 10 requests per second with burst cap at 20 (see location block)
limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=custom_limit:10m rate=10r/s;
upstream gateway {
# balance requests based on which gateway has the least # of active connections
server gateway_a:4001;
server gateway_b:4002;
}
server {
listen 80;
gzip on;
location / {
# rate-limit but allow for bursting of up to 20 req with nodelay in queue additions
limit_req zone=custom_limit burst=20 nodelay;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
# cache config
proxy_cache backcache;
proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
proxy_cache_revalidate on;
proxy_cache_min_uses 3;
proxy_cache_use_stale error timeout updating http_500 http_502
http_503 http_504;
proxy_cache_background_update on;
proxy_cache_lock on;
# proxy headers
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header Remote-Port $remote_port;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_pass http://gateway;
}
}
index.js
import os from "os";
import express from "express";
import setupLogging from "./logging";
import setupProxies from "./proxy";
import ROUTES from "./routes";
const { PORT = 8080 } = process.env;
const app = express();
app.use(express.json());
app.use(
express.urlencoded({
extended: true,
}),
);
setupLogging(app);
setupProxies(app, ROUTES);
app.set("trust proxy", true);
app.get("/", (req, res) =>
res.send(`<h1>Hi, my name is ${os.hostname()}</h1>`)
);
app.get("/health", (req, res) => res.sendStatus(200));
app.listen(PORT, () => {
global.console.info(`Gateway listening at http://localhost:${PORT}`);
});
I'm also using http-proxy-middleware library, I need to process the ip address on the onProxyReq option