X-Forwarded-For not showing up in tomcat7 access log

Question

I'm trying to print out the remote client IP on a tomcat running behind an ELB and for some reason it's not being printed out to the access log. my elb configuartion is : 80 -> 8080 443 -> 8080 Running tomcat7 and my host configuration on server.xml is :

<Host name="localhost"  appBase="webapps"
        unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">

    <!-- SingleSignOn valve, share authentication between web applications
         Documentation at: /docs/config/valve.html -->
    <!--
    <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn" />
    -->

    <!-- Remote IP Valve -->
 <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteIpValve" />

    <!-- Access log processes all example.
         Documentation at: /docs/config/valve.html
         Note: The pattern used is equivalent to using pattern="common" -->
    <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs"
           prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"
           pattern="%{X-Forwarded-For}i %l %u %t &quot;%r&quot; %s %b &quot;%{Referer}i&quot; &quot;%{User-Agent}i&quot;" />

  </Host>

I've tried also with pattern "combined" .

a sample of an access log row :

- - - [18/Feb/2013:19:12:33 +0000] "GET URL HTTP/1.1" 200 1704 "remote URL" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.57 Safari/537.17"

Would appreciate some help here guys. Thanks

Solution

I found this to be the most accurate equivalent to the "common" log format with support for RemoteIpValve:

"%{org.apache.catalina.AccessLog.RemoteAddr}r %l %u %t "%r" %s %b "%{Referer}i" "%{User-Agent}i""

Comments

[Welsh]

I experienced the same issue when I originally had the custom log format of %h %l %u %t "%r" %s %b %D and adjusting the %h to be %{org.apache.catalina.AccessLog.RemoteAddr}r resolved it on Tomcat 8.0.32. (Also had tried %a which also didn't work.)

[bmauter]

Hey, I'm on Tomcat 8.5.20 and %{org.apache.catalina.AccessLog.RemoteAddr}r did not work for me. Instead I used %{X-Forwarded-For}i as in the original question. Any ideas why? Thanks!