OsmanlıOriginal post
Web Developer
Hello, I’m using Appwrite to authenticate a user and then retrieve their IP address. However, when I try to get the user's IP address, it seems to return the server's IP address instead of the actual user's IP address.
Here’s the issue:
I authenticate the user using Appwrite.
I use the locale.get() function to retrieve the user's IP address.
However, the IP address returned points to the server's location, not the actual user's.
Has anyone encountered this issue? Any suggestions on how to fix this?
` const userClient = new Client()
.setEndpoint('https://cloud.appwrite.io/v1')
.setProject('project')
.setJWT(req.headers['x-appwrite-user-jwt']);
const account = new Account(userClient);
const user = await account.get();
const userId = user.$id;
if (userId) {
const locale = new Locale(userClient);
const result = await locale.get();
return res.json(result, 200);
}`
response: { "ip": "138.68.98.28", "countryCode": "DE", "country": "Germany", "continentCode": "EU", "continent": "Europe", "eu": true, "currency": "" }
Summary
Developers are experiencing an issue where Appwrite returns the server's IP address instead of the user's when trying to retrieve location data. To fix this, developers can use the X-Real-IP or X-Forwarded-For headers in their API gateway or Nginx configuration to pass the user's IP address to Appwrite.