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I want to begin by saying I've read the documentation. I'm sure many do not, and I can imagine how annoying that is.

That said, there is a lot of information, and I wanted to confirm that I've understood it correctly.

My company has two Windows servers that run our applications, and we have an nginx server used solely to host the Joomla front end. All sit behind a load balancer.

I have not successfully gotten the nginx config to use the X-Forwarded-For header (my experience is with htaccess and web.config). But based on your documentation, it may not be necessary if I enable the global Joomla config "behind load balancer" - is that correct? That's the part that I am unclear about.

That makes sense. I thought it was too convenient of a solution if I only had to enable the setting in Joomla.

I appreciate the quick reply.

Interesting. I am by no means an expert on the subject, and I was under the impression the X-Forwarded-For header is set up at the server level. For instance, with the Windows servers I mentioned, I was able to add X-Forwarded-For as a custom header in IIS.

But as I think about this more, maybe you're right. I haven't seen a config in our AWS LB that looks like it deals with X-Forwarded-For, but I will take a closer look.

Okay, you were right!

So I guess I have a different issue that I need to solve. The LB is set to include the X-Forwarded-For header, but for some reason the nginx server doesn't log the IP.

Anyway, at least I have a better idea of where the problem lies. I'll figure it out.

Thanks again.