["python","django"]
How do I get user IP address in Django?

How do I get user's IP in Django? I have a view like this: # Create your views from django.contrib.gis.utils import GeoIP from django.template import RequestContext from django.shortcuts import render_to_response def home(request): g = GeoIP() client_ip = request.META['REMOTE_ADDR'] lat,long = g.lat_lon(client_ip) return render_to_response('home_page_tmp.html',locals()) But I get this error: KeyError at /mypage/ 'REMOTE_ADDR' Request Method: GET Request URL: http://mywebsite.example/mypage/ Django Version: 1.2.4 Exception Type: KeyError Exception Value: 'REMOTE_ADDR' Exception Location: /mysite/homepage/views.py in home, line 9 Python Executable: /usr/bin/python Python Version: 2.6.6 Python Path: ['/mysite', '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/flup-1.0.2-py2.6.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.6', '/usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6'] Server time: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 20:42:50 -0600
def get_client_ip(request): x_forwarded_for = request.META.get('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR') if x_forwarded_for: ip = x_forwarded_for.split(',')[0] else: ip = request.META.get('REMOTE_ADDR') return ip Make sure you have reverse proxy (if any) configured correctly (e.g. mod_rpaf installed for Apache). Note: the above uses the first item in X-Forwarded-For, but you might want to use the last item (e.g., in the case of Heroku: Get client's real IP address on Heroku) And then just pass the request as argument to it; get_client_ip(request) Django documentation for HttpRequest.META