Restoring Visitor IP Address while using Cloudflare Proxy DNS

So if you like me and use Cloudflare as your DNS and name server provider while also using WordPress, you’ll probably notice that the visitor IP’s are masked by the proxy service. Now I use virtualmin and webmin as my hosting manager, and there’s no built-in solution to restore visitor IP address. Here is a guide on how to easily install the required Apache modules to restore visitor IP address. This will help you build accurate website reports and get a better feel for the demographics going to your website. Another thing is that I use Ubuntu 20.1 and Apache 2.4. This is the best guide to restore visitor IP addresses that I found yet. I hope this helps.

Make sure the following is installed:

• Red Hat/Fedora sudo yum install httpd-devel libtool git
• Debian/Ubuntu sudo apt-get install apache2-dev libtool git

Clone the following for the most recent build of mod_cloudflare:

• Red Hat/Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu: git clone https://github.com/cloudflare/mod_cloudflare.git; cd mod_cloudflare

Use the Apache extension tool to convert the .c file into a module:

• Red Hat/Fedora/Debain/Ubuntu:apxs -a -i -c mod_cloudflare.c

Restart and verify the module is active:

• Red Hat/Fedoraservice httpd restart; httpd -M|grep cloudflare
• Debian/Ubuntu:sudo apachectl restart; apache2ctl -M|grep cloudflare

Just know that the last step didn’t work for me I had to restart Apache 2.4 manually.

What to order at Griff’s in Montrose, Houston Texas

So one of the best places I have discovered so far in Houston, Texas is Griff’s Irish Pub located in the Montrose neighborhood. With a warm and welcoming, small hometown feeling, and tons of specials, you will feel right at home here the second you walk through the door. After viewing my first apartment here in Houston, I wandered into Griffs between my appointments and was immediately welcomed by inviting locals, cheep brews, and a pretty decent selection of affordable pub food. The sweet owners, a pair of two older local ladies, welcome guests with cookies and Jello shots whenever the local team scores. It’s a great way to bring in business and the locals often pack the place during sports games and for Quizzo/Trivia and sometimes even poker. They serve food until 10PM while there’s nothing fancy or exotic, it’s done right and probably better than anything you can whip up at home. I’ve been coming here for 3 weeks now and most of the friends I have made were right here at Griff’s. Everyone is warm and welcoming, and if you have a few too many, there’s not much judgement. Don’t forget about the daily specials! Some aren’t even on the menu! But you can find them here on my blog. And you’ll probably find me there too.

Tuesday Steak Night (HUGE CROWDS, MOST POPULAR) $17.50 – RIBEYE and LOADED BAKED POTATOE W/ ALL FIXINGS

Wednesday – Pork Chop and Pokse Night – Market Price

Fri: Catfish Special during Karyoke

Monday:
$9 Cheeseburger Special with Fries or Tots

Tuesday Pork Chop Special $9.99 (Lunch)
Pork Chop with Mashed Potates, Gravy, and the FAMOUS Green Beans

Wednesday Chicken Parm $10.95 (Lunch)

Thursday (Lunch) Burger Basket $8.95

Friday (Lunch) Catfish $9.99

Watching IPTV MAC / Mag Portals with STB-Proxy (Self-Hosted)

So if you’re an avid lover of IPTV like me and purchased / rented a MAC Address based IPTV provider and primarily watch on a Macbook Like me AND also have a VPS or virtual server OR want to run it locally, the best solution I’ve found so far is self-hosting STB-Proxy by Chris230291. I run this on my Google Cloud based Ubuntu server (also works on Centos7) and is Python3 based. It’s a simple, no-frills way to add your IPTV MAC servers and watch them in your browser or with common media players like VLC. It’s not the fastest. It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles. But it WORKS!

Here are the instructions on how to install it on your server.
git clone https://github.com/Chris230291/STB-Proxy
apt-install python 3
pip3 install flask requests retrying
apt-install ffmpeg
cd STB-Proxy
sudo python3 app.py
Then navigate to 127.0.0.1:8001 if you’re running on the same machine or open port 8001 and navigate to your servers external IP address

Easy-Peasy. Have comments, questions? Leave them in the comments below.