Nginx replace REMOTE_ADDR with X-Forwarded-For

Question

I am quite new to Nginx, and it seems all so confusing. I have my server setup perfectly, but the problem is, since my server is protected using a HTTP proxy; instead of log

Answer 1

I solved my own problem, since PHP gets filtered through FastCGI, I simply added a fast CGI param which set REMOTE_ADDR to the variable http_x_forwarded_for, so something similar to this:

fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $http_x_forwarded_for;