xampp is showing default gateway instead of showing visit ip

[biobeo]

I have a xampp server installed in a windows 8.1 cpu which I use as a public server for my clients. Now I have made a request box for my clients to drop some request on it, and I am saving their IP in db while sending data through php. I use this php script to get the clients IP address.

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function get_ip() {

//Just get the headers if we can or else use the SERVER global
if ( function_exists( 'apache_request_headers' ) ) {

    $headers = apache_request_headers();

} else {

    $headers = $_SERVER;

}

//Get the forwarded IP if it exists
if ( array_key_exists( 'X-Forwarded-For', $headers ) && filter_var( $headers['X-Forwarded-For'], FILTER_VALIDATE_IP, FILTER_FLAG_IPV4 ) ) {

    $the_ip = $headers['X-Forwarded-For'];

} elseif ( array_key_exists( 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR', $headers ) && filter_var( $headers['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'], FILTER_VALIDATE_IP, FILTER_FLAG_IPV4 )
) {

    $the_ip = $headers['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];

} else {

    $the_ip = filter_var( $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], FILTER_VALIDATE_IP, FILTER_FLAG_IPV4 );

}

return $the_ip;

}


But XAMPP is showing the machine's default gateway instead of showing the visitor's IP.

How can I fix that?

** Note: The Server is alive and you can access it from anywhere using it's ip. and for some obvious reason I have to use xampp as an online server for my clients to better handle it on windows.

[Altrea]

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