remote_addr not returning IPv4 address

Question

I am using xampp on localhost and when I use $_SERVER[\"REMOTE_ADDR\"] it returns ::1 (also does this in phpinfo()). Why does it do th

Answer 1

Your apache is listening for IPv6 connections by default (::1 being local loopback). If you really just want IPv4, try to disable disable IPv6 connections in your apache configuration:

If you want Apache to handle IPv4 connections only, regardless of what your platform and APR will support, specify an IPv4 address on all Listen directives, as in the following examples:

Listen 0.0.0.0:80
Listen 192.170.2.1:80

• http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/bind.html