How do I get user IP address in django?

Question

How do I get user\'s IP in django?

I have a view like this:

# Create your views
from django.contrib.gis.utils import GeoIP
from django.template impor         


        

Answer 1

The simpliest solution (in case you are using fastcgi+nignx) is what itgorilla commented:

Thank you for this great question. My fastcgi was not passing the REMOTE_ADDR meta key. I added the line below in the nginx.conf and fixed the problem: fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr; – itgorilla

Ps: I added this answer just to make his solution more visible.