Update #2: It looks like a couple of days after I posted this, the Mosso guys sent word on fresh clicks that the issue has been fixed on their end, rendering this plugin completely useless, days after I put it up. 🙂
I stumbled across a problem running WordPress on Mosso (Rackspace Clould) servers (which I’m now quite happily running unFocus.com on 🙂 ) in the Mosso Knowledge Base, where the ip address of the user is not properly recorded in comments when running in the Mosso cluster. The knowledge based linked to a fresh clicks article, but I wanted something a little easier to maintain than an inline hack. So I rolled a quick and dirty plugin, which seems to do the trick. Here is what it does:
< ?php /* Plugin Name: unFocus.Mosso-User-IP Plugin URI: http://www.unfocus.com/projects/ Description: A plugin to set REMOTE_ADDR on Mosso clusters to HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP to fix tracking and comment posts, etc. Version: 1.0a Author: Kevin Newman Author URI: http://www.unfocus.com/projects/ */ function unFocus_MossoUserIP() { $_SERVER = $_SERVER; } add_action('init', 'unFocus_MossoUserIP'); ?>
That’s it! It just sets the regular REMOTE_ADDR value to the Mosso Server var HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP. Pretty simple. 🙂 Update: I forgot to upload a zip archive. unFocus.Mosso-User-IP.zip