Surprisingly this hasn't been covered more thoroughly considering how many people are running NGINX as a reverse proxy for their back end CMS such as Wordpress. This article will show you how to configure NGINX with SSL and redirect to non-www. If your Wordpress installation is sitting behind a reverse proxy like NGINX, Wordpress won't be able to see the proper IP address of the client computer for your accurate statistics and reporting. Instead Wordpress will show your reverse proxy instead of the correct client IP addresses. If you're using Cloudflare then there are various plugins to fix that, for NGINX there is not. To show the correct client IP address in your backend logs, you'll need to add the following at the top of wp-config.php: if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'])) { $xffaddrs = explode(',',$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']); $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] = $xffaddrs[0]; … [Read more...]