How to get user s IP address in Laravel

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How to know the ip address of the user in laravel those who have visited my website?
Mar 20, 2020 in Laravel by kartik
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How can i know the exact location through ip using laravel??help me

5 answers to this question.

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Hey,

We can get the user's IP address using:

public function getUserIp(Request $request){  

            // Gettingip address of remote user  

            return $user_ip_address=$request->ip();  

}  

Hope this will be helpful!

Thank you!!

answered Mar 20, 2020 by Niroj
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Thank you sm...it worked foe me

Can u solve my other problem that when i use request object it doesn't work for me, it returns192.168.10.10 which is obviously not my IP address the address of my Homestead server.how to solve this??

Hello @Shivani,

If you are under a load balancer, Laravel's \Request::ip() always returns the balancer's IP:

            echo $request->ip();
            // server ip

            echo \Request::ip();
            // server ip

            echo \request()->ip();
            // server ip

            echo $this->getIp(); //see the method below
            // clent ip

This custom method returns the real client ip:

public function getIp(){
    foreach (array('HTTP_CLIENT_IP', 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR', 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED', 'HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP', 'HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR', 'HTTP_FORWARDED', 'REMOTE_ADDR') as $key){
        if (array_key_exists($key, $_SERVER) === true){
            foreach (explode(',', $_SERVER[$key]) as $ip){
                $ip = trim($ip); // just to be safe
                if (filter_var($ip, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP, FILTER_FLAG_NO_PRIV_RANGE | FILTER_FLAG_NO_RES_RANGE) !== false){
                    return $ip;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

In addition to this I suggest you to be very careful using Laravel's throttle middleware: It uses Laravel's Request::ip() as well, so all your visitors will be identified as the same user and you will hit the throttle limit very quickly. I experienced this live and this caused big issues.

To fix this:

Illuminate\Http\Request.php

    public function ip()
    {
        //return $this->getClientIp(); //original method
        return $this->getIp(); // the above method
    }

You can now also use Request::ip(), which should return the real IP in production.

Hope it helps!!
Thank you!!

Many thanks to you

if had a vulnerability it takes HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR as input which allows non-admins to gain admin access by altering the HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR header. Also see blog.ircmaxell.com/2012/11/anatomy-of-attack-how-i-hacked.html

Yes, it does. Otherwise you have a very broken server configuration.

Thank you for this solution
It worked thank you..saved my day
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$ip = trim(shell_exec("dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com"));
answered Aug 28, 2020 by Jonjie
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Hello folks

There are two things to take care of:

  1. Get a helper function that returns a Illuminate\Http\Request and call the ->ip() method:

    request()->ip();
  2. Think of your server configuration, it may use a proxy or load-balancer, especially in an AWS ELB configuration.

If this is your case you need to follow "Configuring Trusted Proxies" or maybe even set a "Trusting All Proxies" option.

answered Sep 16, 2020 by Nikhil
• 140 points
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Use $clientIP = request()->ip();
answered Sep 21, 2020 by aakash
• 230 points
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Looking at the Laravel API:

Request::ip();

Internally, it uses the getClientIps the method from the Symfony Request Object:

public function getClientIps()
{
    $clientIps = array();
    $ip = $this->server->get('REMOTE_ADDR');
    if (!$this->isFromTrustedProxy()) {
        return array($ip);
    }
    if (self::$trustedHeaders[self::HEADER_FORWARDED] && $this->headers->has(self::$trustedHeaders[self::HEADER_FORWARDED])) {
        $forwardedHeader = $this->headers->get(self::$trustedHeaders[self::HEADER_FORWARDED]);
        preg_match_all('{(for)=("?\[?)([a-z0-9\.:_\-/]*)}', $forwardedHeader, $matches);
        $clientIps = $matches[3];
    } elseif (self::$trustedHeaders[self::HEADER_CLIENT_IP] && $this->headers->has(self::$trustedHeaders[self::HEADER_CLIENT_IP])) {
        $clientIps = array_map('trim', explode(',', $this->headers->get(self::$trustedHeaders[self::HEADER_CLIENT_IP])));
    }
    $clientIps[] = $ip; // Complete the IP chain with the IP the request actually came from
    $ip = $clientIps[0]; // Fallback to this when the client IP falls into the range of trusted proxies
    foreach ($clientIps as $key => $clientIp) {
        // Remove port (unfortunately, it does happen)
        if (preg_match('{((?:\d+\.){3}\d+)\:\d+}', $clientIp, $match)) {
            $clientIps[$key] = $clientIp = $match[1];
        }
        if (IpUtils::checkIp($clientIp, self::$trustedProxies)) {
            unset($clientIps[$key]);
        }
    }
    // Now the IP chain contains only untrusted proxies and the client IP
    return $clientIps ? array_reverse($clientIps) : array($ip);
} 
answered Dec 15, 2020 by Roshni
• 10,520 points

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