Domain shows internal IP address (proxmox LXC Wordpress host)
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ReauLeau · 2023-11-26 11:55

Hi guys,

I've created a LXC to host Wordpress through proxmox. I can access my
website with the internal IP address that has been given to it. Now I
want to connect it to my bought domain
'[www.example.com](https://www.example.com) '. I portforwarded my
internal IP address with port 80 and created an 'A' entry in
Cloudflare to route my domain to my external IP address. Afterwards I
made sure that I configured the nameservers from Cloudflare in my
domain configuration.

But whenever I enter [www.example.com](https://www.example.com) it
instantly goes to my internal IP address. If I use celular it also
tries to do it but won't be able to access my website (duh).

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Whenever I type in my external IP
address with port 80 it also goes towards my internal IP address.

When I use [https://www.broadbandsearch.net/nslookup](https://www.broa
dbandsearch.net/nslookup) it also shows the configured nameservers
from Cloudflare so that should be good.

Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong? Any help would be
greatly appreciated.

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Still-Snow-3743 · 2023-11-26 12:29

This is just a WordPress quirk, you did everything ok.  You can
usually solve this but using wp-cli to do a global find and replace
for your IP address with the new domain name on your WordPress
install.  Another option is setting some constants which are something
like SITE_HOME (I'm not sure that's right) in your wo-co fig.php file.
Google "change domain WordPress" and it should point you in the right
direction.

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ReauLeau · 2023-11-26 12:37

That's great to hear! I've just managed to install wp-cli, but I'm
still quite new to linux/debian. Do you have any example command I can
put into it to replace the internal ip adress with the new domain?

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c0ff33h4x · 2023-11-26 17:17

These should do it for you but there are many options for changing
this:

wp option update home 'http://yoursiteurl.com'
wp option update siteurl 'http://yoursiteurl.com'


Here’s a site listing a few methods.  I usually will run the change
manually in sql but if you have access to the web hi you can change it
there:  https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/wordpress-change-url/

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ReauLeau · 2023-11-27 08:37

I found it in the web ui! thanks!

It no longer shows the internal ip address. However I do get a new
error which I'm unable to resolve so far...

*Forbidden*
*You don't have permission to access this resource.*

According to the internet this is not a great issue to have and for
some reason I'm also not able to connect through FTP, meh.