[FX.php List] [OFF] Getting visitor's IP

[Kevin Futter]

On 22/08/08 1:46 AM, "Bob Patin" <bob at patin.com> wrote:

> Strange... I know that I used this a couple of years ago.
> 
> Could there be a setting on my web server that would change this
> behavior? Would it be a PHP setting or possibly something in the
> server itself (Mac OS X Server/Apache)?
> 
> If anyone knows, I'd appreciate some guidance.
> 

Hi Bob,

The problem is that Mac OS X Server stores this info in a non-standard
variable. You're probably testing for:

$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']

Whereas OS X Server uses:

$_SERVER['HTTP_PC_REMOTE_ADDR']

Been there and done that one.

I now normalise the two of them thusly:

if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_PC_REMOTE_ADDR']))
{
// OS X Server uses HTTP_PC_REMOTE_ADDR to store user IP

$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_PC_REMOTE_ADDR'];
}

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

Hope this helps!


-- 
Kevin Futter
Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/


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