# Is it possible to populate $geoip\_country from another value in the header? **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [January 10, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-it-possible-to-populate-geoip-country-from-another-value-in-the-header/201522 "2011-01-10T02:47:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dubstep)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-it-possible-to-populate-geoip-country-from-another-value-in-the-header/201522/1 "2011-01-10T02:47:40Z")
Hi, we may have a situation where NGINX is behind a load-balancer that cloaks all source-IPs with its own. However, the original source-IP is conserved in a header. Would it be possible to populate the geoip\_country variable from that other variable? Best Regards, Rainer ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 4:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-it-possible-to-populate-geoip-country-from-another-value-in-the-header/201522/2 "2011-01-10T04:38:32Z")
Hello! On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 02:46:42AM +0100, [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > we may have a situation where NGINX is behind a load-balancer that cloaks > all source-IPs with its own. > However, the original source-IP is conserved in a header. > Would it be possible to populate the geoip\_country variable from that > other variable? > **[GitHub - nginxinc/nginx-wiki: ARCHIVED -- Source for the now archived NGINX Wiki...](https://github.com/nginxinc/nginx-wiki)** > > ARCHIVED -- Source for the now archived NGINX Wiki section of https://www.nginx.com real\_ip\_from your.balancer.ip.address; real\_ip\_header Header-With-Client-Ip; Maxim D.