Varnish purge behind nginX proxy

[Baptiste]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Bertrand Caplet
<bertrand.caplet at chunkz.net> wrote:
> Hey guys,
> I set varnish behind a nginX proxy few days ago.
> I want to be able to purge varnish only from the machine where it's
> hosted but because there is a nginx reverse proxy in front of it,
> varnish thinks it's coming from 127.0.0.1 so basically whatever the
> client is, anyone can purge the cache.
> By the way I set some rules for varnish to know x-forwarded-for = client.ip.
>
> Do you know how can I change that?
>
> Thanks in advance,
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Hey,

This is why the proxy-protocol is made :)
Unfortunately, nginx doesn't support it on the backend side.

Baptiste