Your frontend CDN (eg. Cloudflare or even your own load balancer/proxy) must be sending the X-Forwarded-For and you must be running Apache on the backend. This solves the problem where your logs and services will only see the proxy/CDN IP and not the real client IP. modremoteip is the most modern and current working solution Step 1.) Enable remoteip a2enmod remoteip Step 2.) Edit/Enable the correct config Edit t........