Here is how I set up a "show my public IP address" with Nginx without any backend (no PHP, no Nginx-Lua, ...).
The following block does the trick:
location /ip {
default_type text/plain;
return 200 $remote_addr;
}
The response is simply the IP address of the client:
$ curl https://example.com/ip
2001:1b48:103::189
The default_type text/plain
directive has no utility other than preventing Web browsers from attempting to download the response as a file. That is, a Web browser can display the IP address directly.
For programs interacting with the endpoint, it has no particular utility.
Bonus: JSON response
Want a JSON response? Sure, it is perfectly doable:
location /json_ip {
default_type application/json;
return 200 "{\"ip\":\"$remote_addr\"}";
}
The response is now a pretty JSON document:
$ curl -s https://example.com/json_ip | jq
{
"ip": "2001:1b48:103::189"
}
I hope that little Nginx trick will save you some maintenance time.
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