phorum ips not showing lately!

Junior WebHelper Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Posts: 4

hi

im one of those who paid for an f2s account in order to keep my free one. anyways, i have a phorum (www.irishhiphop.f2s.com/forum) going since last july but for the last few weeks the ip addresses of the users are not showing...
im wondering has anyone else running phorum on an f2s account have the same problem and/or if anyone has any suggestions how to remedy it?
could it be due to a change in the php version used by f2s?

many thanks

Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2002 11:21 pm (21 years, 10 months ago)

Hmm download the env script from this site and run that and see what variable gives the IP. It used to be HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR but they may have changed something?

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 1060

keyo wrote:

hi

im one of those who paid for an f2s account in order to keep my free one. anyways, i have a phorum (www.irishhiphop.f2s.com/forum) going since last july but for the last few weeks the ip addresses of the users are not showing...
im wondering has anyone else running phorum on an f2s account have the same problem and/or if anyone has any suggestions how to remedy it?
could it be due to a change in the php version used by f2s?

many thanks

Follow Bens advice, also I thought I would point out PHP on that server has been upgraded to 4.1.2 on 16th of May according to our records, at the same time apache was upgraded to 1.3.24 if it's any help........

Junior WebHelper Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Posts: 4

thanks for the speedy replies!

ill look into both those suggestions, i cant seem to find the env script in the scripts section,where should i check for that?

thanks!

Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2002 4:13 pm (21 years, 10 months ago)

Hmm doesnt actually seem to be available in the scripts section

Just create a txt file with the following

Quote:

#!/usr/bin/perl

# Print content-type for HTTP/1.0 compatibility
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

# Print title and initial heading
print "<Head><Title>Environment</Title></Head>\n";
print "<Body><H1>List of all Environmental Variables</H1><HR>\n";

# Sort and print all environmental variables
foreach $key (sort keys(%ENV)) {print "$key = $ENV{$key}<br>\n";}

# Resolve REMOTE_HOST into name
$ip_address = $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'};
@numbers = split(/\./, $ip_address);
$ip_number = pack("C4", @numbers);
($name) = (gethostbyaddr($ip_number, 2))[0];
if (defined $name) {print "<HR>REMOTE_HOST resolves to: $name";}

exit;

and save it as env.cgi and upload and call it in your browser

Junior WebHelper Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Posts: 4

hi

thanks for the info
i tried out the script, i dont see HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR
but i have REMOTE_ADDR = 136.201.27.206
and at the end of the page REMOTE_HOST resolves to: imedia-17.csis.ul.ie
, which is the one i should use?
thanks

Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2002 4:44 pm (21 years, 10 months ago)

Seems they have got rid of the squid caches then....

If you look at your code and find where it logs the IP you should be able to switch it to use remote_host

Junior WebHelper Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Posts: 4

YES!!

i tried both remote_addr and remote_host, turned out remote_addr was the one that worked, thanks for helping me get this worked out folks!
cheers!