Title: Server IP
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Server IP

 *  [indigokj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/indigokj/)
 * (@indigokj)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-ip/)
 * For the past month or so WordFence has been reporting our own server IP as the
   offending (visiting) IP for almost all interactions. We used to be able to see
   the IPs of visitors, but now their visits are recording our own IP. Did something
   change? Is there a setting that needs to be changed?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  [WFSupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfsupport/)
 * (@wfsupport)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-ip/#post-5421998)
 * Check on the options page for “how wordfence gets its IP’s and pick the option
   that best fits your hosting situation. If you are unsure, its ok to try them 
   all and scan in between to see which one works. Let me know if this fixes it 
   for you.
 * tim
 *  Thread Starter [indigokj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/indigokj/)
 * (@indigokj)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-ip/#post-5422019)
 * I called our host support and asked them about this, trying to get the options
   set correctly. They enabled the x-forwarded-for header in Varnish and confirmed
   the web server’s access log is now showing the correct visitor IP address instead
   of the local server’s IP address, and then I chose that setting within the WF
   options, but it still doesn’t report actual IPs.
 * We have 25 sites now that are all reporting incorrect information. What changed
   in WordFence and why? This is pretty frustrating.
 *  [WFSupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfsupport/)
 * (@wfsupport)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-ip/#post-5422044)
 * Try cycling through those drop down options and see if one of the other ones 
   fix it. Don’t change with hosting provider since we know they fixed the initial
   problem.
 * tim

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 * [server](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/server/)

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-ip/#post-5422044)
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