How to get client IP address in Laravel 5

Question

I am trying to get the client s IP address in Laravel    It is easy to get a client s IP in PHP by using   SERVER  REMOTE ADDR    It is working fine in core PHP  but when I use the same thing in Laravel   it returns the server IP instead of the visitor s IP

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If you have multiple layer proxies just like CDN + Load Balancer.
Using Laravel Request::ip() function will get right-most proxy IP but not client IP.
You may try following solution.

app/Http/Middleware/TrustProxies.php

protected $proxies = ['0.0.0.0/0'];

Reference: https://github.com/fideloper/TrustedProxy/issues/107#issuecomment-373065215

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If you are under a load balancer  Laravel s  Request  ip   always returns the balancer s IP              echo  request- gt ip                   server ip              echo  Request  ip                   server ip              echo  request  - gt ip                   server ip              echo  this- gt getIp      see the method below                clent ip  This custom method returns the real client ip  public function getIp        foreach  array  HTTP CLIENT IP    HTTP X FORWARDED FOR    HTTP X FORWARDED    HTTP X CLUSTER CLIENT IP    HTTP FORWARDED FOR    HTTP FORWARDED    REMOTE ADDR   as  key           if  array key exists  key    SERVER      true               foreach  explode        SERVER  key   as  ip                    ip   trim  ip      just to be safe                 if  filter var  ip  FILTER VALIDATE IP  FILTER FLAG NO PRIV RANGE   FILTER FLAG NO RES RANGE      false                       return  ip                                                      return request  - gt ip       it will return server ip when no client ip found    In addition to this I suggest you to be very careful using Laravel s throttle middleware  It uses Laravel s Request  ip   as well  so all your visitors will be identified as the same user and you will hit the throttle limit very quickly  I experienced this live and this caused big issues  To fix this  Illuminate Http Request php     public function ip                   return  this- gt getClientIp      original method         return  this- gt getIp       the above method        You can now also use Request  ip    which should return the real IP in production

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If you are still getting 127 0 0 1 as the IP  you need to add your  proxy   but be aware that you have to change it before going into production   Read  Configuring Trusted Proxies     And add this   class TrustProxies extends Middleware                  The trusted proxies for this application                 var array             protected  proxies          Now request  - gt ip   gives you the correct IP

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There are two things to take care of    Get a helper function that returns a Illuminate Http Request and call the - gt ip   method   request  - gt ip     Think of your server configuration  it may use a proxy or load-balancer  especially in an AWS ELB configuration    If this is your case you need to follow  Configuring Trusted Proxies  or maybe even set a  Trusting All Proxies  option   Why  Because being your server will be getting your proxy load-balancer IP instead   If you are on the AWS balance-loader  go to App Http Middleware TrustProxies and make  proxies declaration look like this   protected  proxies          Now test it and celebrate because you just saved yourself from having trouble with  throttle middleware  It also relies on request  - gt ip   and without setting  TrustProxies  up  you could have all your users blocked from logging in instead of blocking only the culprit s IP   And because throttle middleware is not explained properly in the documentation  I recommend watching  laravel 5 2 tutorial for beginner  API Rate Limiting   Tested in Laravel 5 7

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If you worry about getting the IP address but do not need or want to use any Laravel functionality  you can use just php  PHP  lt  5 3 0  localIP   getHostByName php uname  n     PHP  gt   5 3 0  localIP   getHostByName getHostName     as answered in this thread  PHP how to get local IP of system

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ip     SERVER  REMOTE ADDR

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If you call this function then you easily get the client s IP address  I have already used this in my existing project   public function getUserIpAddr            ipaddress              if  isset   SERVER  HTTP CLIENT IP                 ipaddress     SERVER  HTTP CLIENT IP           else if isset   SERVER  HTTP X FORWARDED FOR                 ipaddress     SERVER  HTTP X FORWARDED FOR           else if isset   SERVER  HTTP X FORWARDED                 ipaddress     SERVER  HTTP X FORWARDED           else if isset   SERVER  HTTP FORWARDED FOR                 ipaddress     SERVER  HTTP FORWARDED FOR           else if isset   SERVER  HTTP FORWARDED                 ipaddress     SERVER  HTTP FORWARDED           else if isset   SERVER  REMOTE ADDR                 ipaddress     SERVER  REMOTE ADDR           else             ipaddress    UNKNOWN              return  ipaddress

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You can get a few way ip address utilizing Request ip  Request getClientIp and solicitation partner work  In this model  I will tell you the best way to get current client ip address in laravel 5 8   clientIP   request  - gt ip     dd  clientIP    You can follow this from here

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For Laravel 5 you can use the Request object  Just call its ip   method  something like    request- gt ip

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Add namespace   use Request    Then call the function   Request  ip

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Solution 1  You can use this type of function for getting client IP public function getClientIPaddress Request  request         clientIp    request- gt ip        return  clientIp     Solution 2  if the solution1 is not providing accurate IP then you can use this function for getting visitor real IP   public function getClientIPaddress Request  request         if  isset   SERVER  quot HTTP CF CONNECTING IP quot                 SERVER  REMOTE ADDR       SERVER  quot HTTP CF CONNECTING IP quot              SERVER  HTTP CLIENT IP       SERVER  quot HTTP CF CONNECTING IP quot               client       SERVER  HTTP CLIENT IP         forward      SERVER  HTTP X FORWARDED FOR         remote      SERVER  REMOTE ADDR         if filter var  client  FILTER VALIDATE IP             clientIp    client            elseif filter var  forward  FILTER VALIDATE IP             clientIp    forward            else           clientIp    remote             return  clientIp      N B  When you have used load-balancer proxy-server in your live server then you need to used solution 2 for getting real visitor ip

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In Laravel 5 4 we can t call ip static   This a correct way to get the IP of the user    use Illuminate Http Request   public function contactUS Request  request                echo  request- gt ip            return view  page contactUS

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I used the Sebastien Horin function getIp and request  - gt ip    at global request   because to localhost the getIp function return null   this- gt getIp      request  - gt ip    The getIp function  public function getIp    foreach  array  HTTP CLIENT IP    HTTP X FORWARDED FOR    HTTP X FORWARDED    HTTP X CLUSTER CLIENT IP    HTTP FORWARDED FOR    HTTP FORWARDED    REMOTE ADDR   as  key       if  array key exists  key    SERVER      true           foreach  explode        SERVER  key   as  ip                ip   trim  ip      just to be safe             if  filter var  ip  FILTER VALIDATE IP  FILTER FLAG NO PRIV RANGE   FILTER FLAG NO RES RANGE      false                   return  ip

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Use request  - gt ip      From what I understand  since Laravel 5 it s advised good practice to use the global functions like    response  - gt json  v   view  path to blade    redirect    route    cookie      And  if anything  when using the functions instead of the static notation my IDE doesn t light up like a Christmas tree

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In Laravel 5  public function index Request  request       request- gt ip

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Looking at the Laravel API  Request  ip     Internally  it uses the getClientIps method from the Symfony Request Object  public function getClientIps          clientIps   array         ip    this- gt server- gt get  REMOTE ADDR        if    this- gt isFromTrustedProxy              return array  ip             if  self   trustedHeaders self  HEADER FORWARDED   amp  amp   this- gt headers- gt has self   trustedHeaders self  HEADER FORWARDED               forwardedHeader    this- gt headers- gt get self   trustedHeaders self  HEADER FORWARDED            preg match all    for    quot        a-z0-9     -         forwardedHeader   matches            clientIps    matches 3         elseif  self   trustedHeaders self  HEADER CLIENT IP   amp  amp   this- gt headers- gt has self   trustedHeaders self  HEADER CLIENT IP               clientIps   array map  trim   explode       this- gt headers- gt get self   trustedHeaders self  HEADER CLIENT IP                 clientIps      ip     Complete the IP chain with the IP the request actually came from      ip    clientIps 0      Fallback to this when the client IP falls into the range of trusted proxies     foreach   clientIps as  key   gt   clientIp               Remove port  unfortunately  it does happen          if  preg match        d     3  d     d      clientIp   match                  clientIps  key     clientIp    match 1                     if  IpUtils  checkIp  clientIp  self   trustedProxies                 unset  clientIps  key                           Now the IP chain contains only untrusted proxies and the client IP     return  clientIps   array reverse  clientIps    array  ip

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If you want client IP and your server is behind aws elb  then user the following code  Tested for laravel 5 3   elbSubnet    172 31 0 0 16   Request  setTrustedProxies   elbSubnet     clientIp    request- gt ip

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When we want the user s ip address     SERVER  REMOTE ADDR     and want to server address     SERVER  SERVER ADDR

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