{"id":18939189,"date":"2026-06-15T22:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/setting-up-ip-detection-settings\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T22:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:00:18","slug":"setting-up-ip-detection-settings","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/setting-up-ip-detection-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting up IP Detection Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi, I&#8217;m using the free version, latest as of 6\/15\/26, of AIO security. I&#8217;ve just installed it and most all is fine. I&#8217;m getting a warning message to: &#8220;The All in One Security plugin couldn&#8217;t be certain about the correct method to detect the IP address for your site visitors with your currently-configured IP address detection settings. It is important for your security to set the IP address detection settings properly.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve reviewed the IP Settings info in Advanced Settings tab, and see two options listed\/highlighted in variables listing &#8211; REMOTE_ADDR (showing a current value which is my IP address), and HTTP_CLIENT_IP (current value: 127.0.0.1). The plugin is detecting my IP address; as its CloudFlare, ipify IPv4 &amp; IPv6 values. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AIO is, for now, using REMOTE_ADDR, I guess as I have not &#8220;saved&#8221; or changed anything since reviewing this tab. Aside from choosing one of the two options, and saving, I see no other settings to make. As the warning message states the app is not certain about the method for detection, and there&#8217;s only two options, not sure what it&#8217;s asking for. I would think this is a simple explanation, but I don&#8217;t want to make the wrong choice. Is it just asking that I &#8220;save&#8221; the REMOTE_ option &#8211; this is the first time setting up this app and nothing has been &#8220;saved&#8221; in this tab &#8211; so it can do what it does, or is the REMOTE_ option use the one giving out the warning, and the HTTP would be better?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am not a developer, just the site administrator (developer unavailable) &#8211; so please, any help given should not be too technical. I can follow clear instructions (if needed, and if you say add any code to a file\/folder please state where in the file to add it, beginning\/end, and write exactly as it should be entered symbols and all &#8211; I can find the files\/folders in htdocs but don&#8217;t want to mess it up). To further show my lack of knowing; the IP address\/value it shows is for my work computer, not the website&#8217;s IP, is that correct or should it be the site&#8217;s IP? I tried running a scan and it ran forever, 50 minutes, before I canceled it and I wondered if the plugin was not connecting to\/aware of the site&#8217;s actual server because of a IP value mismatch?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18939189","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18939189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18939189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18939189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}