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Get Visitors Actual IP Address with LiteSpeed & Cloudflare

If you are using Cloudflare, your server will log Cloudflare IP address when visitors coming to your website. This problem can be solved by using mod_cloudflare for Apache server.

However, the method won’t work with LiteSpeed. Fortunately, LiteSpeed has a much simpler method to get the actual visitor’s IP address.

Use the following steps in order to obtain actual visitor’s IP address if you are using LiteSpeed & Cloudflare.

Login to LiteSpeed Web Admin Panel
Browse to Configuration → Server → General Settings
Edit “Use Client IP in Header” to “Yes“
Save & Start LiteSpeed Gracefully

Fix LiteSpeed and Apache Frequently Restarted in cPanel/WHM

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Apache, cPanel/WHM, LiteSpeed

Apache Configuration

If you are using cPanel/WHM and having a problem where LiteSpeed or Apache frequently restarted, this is the solution.

These graceful restarts are part of the log rotation. If you want to minimize the restarts, then you may want to consider switching to the piped logging option instead for logging.

To do this login to WHM and follow the path below.

WHM → Service Configuration → Apache Configuration → Piped Log Configuration

check “Enable piped Apache logs” then click Save button.

Details about the the log file rotation is available here.