I have to admit up front, this is probably more of an Nginx question, but here goes: I have a Mojolicious::Lite app that does some simple visitor logging. I'm capturing the IP, requested path, and timestamp of the visit to a database. This all worked fine under morbo, Mojo's built-in development web server.

my $ip = $self->tx->remote_address;
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Yesterday I launched the app under hypnotoad, behind nginx and now I no longer get accurate user IPs. All requests now appear as 127.0.0.1. This would make sense as the requests are coming through nginx.

some of what I read online suggests that I can get to the real IP like this:

$self->req->headers->header('X-Real-IP')
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with the associated addition to my Nginx config:

proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
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However I'm still getting 127.0.0.1 after modifying my app to pull X-Real-IP, and restarting the server :(

Here is my Nginx config:

upstream myapp {
  server 127.0.0.1:8080;
}
server {
  listen 80;
  server_name localhost;
  #include /etc/nginx/proxy_params;
  location / {
    proxy_pass http://myapp;
    proxy_http_version 1.1;
    proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
    proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    #proxy_set_header X-Remote-Port $remote_port;

  }
}
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