CFLib.org – Common Function Library Project

Description:
This tag is able to get the ip address of your server. This can be used for servers that are in a cluster and you need to know the ipaddress of the computer throwing an error. This will only work for one ip of a machine.

Return Values:
Returns a string.

Example:

<cfoutput>#GetServerIP()#</cfoutput>

Parameters:

No arguments.

Full UDF Source:

<cfscript>
/**
 * Gets the ip address of the server.
 * 
 * @return Returns a string. 
 * @author Robert Everland III (&#114;&#101;&#118;&#101;&#114;&#108;&#97;&#110;&#100;&#64;&#114;&#101;&#97;&#99;&#116;&#105;&#118;&#101;&#118;&#105;&#115;&#105;&#111;&#110;&#46;&#99;&#111;&#109;) 
 * @version 1, January 12, 2004 
 */
function GetServerIP() {
   var iaclass="";
   var addr="";
      
   // Init class
   iaclass=CreateObject("java", "java.net.InetAddress");

   //Get Local host variable
   addr=iaclass.getLocalHost();

   // Return ip address
   return addr.getHostAddress();
}
</cfscript>