apache and tomcat get remote ip

Question

I have this setting in my apache, this work fine, but in my app when a get remote address this return local IP (127.0.0.1), how I solve this problem?

</Location>        
</VirtualHost><VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName yourapp.yourdomain.com
ServerAlias yourapp.*        
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPreserveHost On     
<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>     
ProxyPass /webapp http://localhost:8080/webapp
ProxyPassReverse /webapp http://localhost:8080/webapp    
<Location /webapp>
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Location>        
</VirtualHost>

Answer 1

You can use Remote_IP_Valve to set the actual IP address in the request.

In your tomcat/conf/server.xml add the valve like

<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteIpValve"
   remoteIpHeader="x-forwarded-for"
/>