Any web server which is accessible over HTTP or HTTPS can be configured as an origin in ImageKit.io. This allows you to use ImageKit.io's real-time image optimization and transformation features on all existing images.

How to add a web server origin?

1. Go to the integration section of your ImageKit.io dashboard and click on the "Add origin" button.

2. Give your origin a name, it will appear in the list of origins you have added. For example - Website load balancer.

3. Fill out the base URL, for example, if your current image URL is https://www.example.com/rest-of-the-path.jpg, then enter https://www.example.com as the base URL.

4. Leave the advanced options as it is, for now.

5. Click on Submit button.

The newly added origin will start appearing under image origin list in the integration section of ImageKit.io dashboard. Similarly, you can add multiple origins to the same account.

Whitelist request from ImageKit.io

If you have deployed a WAF, you need to whitelist requests coming from ImageKit.io servers.

We recommend you to whitelist our requests to your origin based on request header value. All our requests to your origin will have a header x-req-from with its value set to imagekit.

Below is a list of IP addresses currently used by ImageKit.io to fetch images from your origin:

3.0.152.204
3.105.141.56
3.105.153.182
3.105.56.110
3.106.43.145
3.120.113.108
3.124.164.235
3.125.145.160
3.125.232.112
3.126.54.34
3.228.64.190
3.25.15.199
3.6.106.236
3.6.117.197
3.6.117.226
3.6.125.142
3.6.139.207
3.6.31.234
3.6.77.26
13.211.250.60
13.234.210.223
13.235.117.100
13.239.68.153
13.239.93.60
13.250.152.216
13.251.231.118
13.54.10.227
13.57.157.178
13.57.80.35
13.57.84.219
15.206.35.88
18.136.180.238
18.138.42.101
18.138.48.167
18.140.193.132
18.144.94.93
18.184.51.46
18.194.51.214
18.214.253.69
34.198.33.10
34.227.255.75
35.156.190.52
52.1.78.96
52.220.21.200
52.221.19.26
52.23.130.57
52.29.99.236
52.52.150.88
52.52.156.33
52.53.89.205
52.63.6.226
52.76.146.253
52.86.168.184
52.9.51.127
52.9.54.118
54.183.110.13
54.198.229.74
54.93.187.13
100.25.189.19
100.26.0.170

Access the image through ImageKit.io URL-endpoint

Let's assume the original image URL is https://www.example.com/rest-of-the-path.jpg. The same image can be accessed through ImageKit.io default URL-endpoint now - https://ik.imagekit.io/your_imagekit_id/rest-of-the-path.jpg

We just replaced the old base URL https://www.example.com with the new ImageKit.io URL-endpoint, i.e., https://ik.imagekit.io/your_imagekit_id.

Advanced options for web server origin

Include canonical response header

When enabled, the image response contains a Link header with the appropriate URL and rel=canonical. You will have to specify the base URL for the canonical header.

For example, if you set https://www.example.com as the base URL for canonical header, then the image response for URL https://ik.imagekit.io/your_imagekit_id/rest-of-the-path.jpg will have a Link header like this:

Link: <https://www.example.com/rest-of-the-path.jpg>; rel="canonical"

Forward Host header to this origin

By default, when ImageKit.io tries to get the image from your origin, the value of the Host header is the same as the base URL specified for the origin. For example, if the base URL is https://www.example.com, then the same gets forward to your origin.

However, when this setting is enabled, the host value from the image URL will be forwarded to the origin as the Host header. For example, if you are using a custom domain name for your image URLs, like static.example.com , then that is what gets forwarded to your host instead of www.example.com