I’ve been configuring Apache httpd for over a decade, from a single personal web server to web farms running thousands of vhosts. In most of the “real” environments I’ve worked in, we’ve had some variation of production, stage/test/QA and development hosts; and usually some method …

There are a few unfortunate places where I have an Apache httpd server serving multiple vhosts, some behind a F5 BigIp load balancer and some with direct traffic. For sites behind the LB, the remote IP/host will always show up as the LB’s IP/host, not that of …