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Cloud Flare prevents IP lookup for wiki users - Ned Scott - 2016-03-04
When people request wiki accounts I sometimes need to check their IP against known spamlists. I do this manually because the extension for mediawiki has too many false positives and will sometimes block real humans. Now all IPs for users are seen as Cloud Flare IP addresses. I know the actual web pages are cached via Cloud Flare, but is there any way for the user's IP on the other end to actually be forwarded to the server? I imagine this also messes up Google Analytics.
If not, no worries. I can just make my best guess from the "say why you want to edit" question that they are asked to fill out. I just thought I would ask. Thanks.
RE: Cloud Flare prevents IP lookup for wiki users - ronie - 2016-03-04
we had the same problem on the forum and were able to fix this by changing a setting in the forum software.
perhaps there's some option in mediawiki for it as well.
searching google let me to this page:
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170806-How-do-I-restore-original-visitor-IP-with-MediaWiki-
RE: Cloud Flare prevents IP lookup for wiki users - Ned Scott - 2016-03-04
That's perfect, thank you ronie.