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When using Cloudflare as a CDN and DDoS protection service, it acts as an intermediary between your website and its visitors. This means that by default, the IP address visible to your web server is the one belonging to Cloudflare, not the original visitor. This can create issues for logging, analytics, and security policies based on IP addresses. In this article, we will walk through the steps necessary to configure your Nginx server to properly log and use the real IP addresses of visitors when using Cloudflare, even within a Dockerized environment. Read more…