Right now I have a domain ex: foobar.com hosted on Bluehost.
I created an instance on AWS and fortunately, I used (wordpress by bitnami) to migrate my foobar.com to the aws site.
I created an elastic ip and associated it with my instance.
This is where I am stuck. I've read tons of tutorials telling me to go into my Bluehost and add a DNS record which I haved.
My first attempt was to do a URL redirect on foobar.com, which worked but only for the homepage because when I would navigate to another page, it would display the elastic ip (ex: 53.13.153.12/about).
I am unsure how to go about this problem.
Setup an A Record, not a URL redirect. You'll need to then configure the vhost on your server to understand that domain (I think you may have already done this step).
Bluehost has some documentation here
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My wordpress site is accessible from both the IP address and the domain name.
https://example.com and IP
How to redirect IP address to domain name?
The IP address is also indexed on Google.
Installed using Bitnami marketplace on AWS
It seems this have been discussed on bitnami community: https://community.bitnami.com/t/how-to-block-access-ip/61773
Credits to user Jota (Bitnami Engineer):
You need to made 3 changes in the solution to make it work with the
domain only:
Change the WordPress configuration file to use your domain
https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/apps/wordpress/administration/configure-domain/
Change the WP database to use that domain
https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/apps/wordpress/administration/update-ip-hostname/ (*)
Change Apache to redirect all the requests to your domain
https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/apps/wordpress/administration/use-single-domain/
(*) This link do not work right now. But this topic is discussed here:
https://community.bitnami.com/t/only-use-dns-name-for-the-website-rather-its-ip-address-for-security/85944
I'm migrating a bitnami wordpress site from AWS lightsail to GCP.
The AWS's setup includes a purchased wildcard SSL. When I set up the loadbalancer in GCP, I opt for Google's SSL instead.
I got this error Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP when I access from the loadbalancer's IP. The VM is working fine and I am able to access it with it's own external IP.
The domain is still pointing to AWS's server. I wonder if the error is because I have not pointed the domain to the load balancer's IP?
I'm hoping to gain some clarity first before I update the domain's IP. I want to avoid situation where it does not work after I make the switch.
Thanks
Alright this is a super weird request and it's just a stopgap measure until the client cleans up their many web properties, so no need to tell me that it's a convoluted way to do things. Current setup:
example.com is registered with GoDaddy but points to a Squarespace
site (CNAME & A records, etc)
sub.example.com is a Wordpress site on Godaddy hosting
Question: Can I make the WP site at sub.example.com instead appear as example.com/sub? If so, how?
I can set the site_url and home_url in WP, and I can set up a forwarding rule from Squarespace to the IP of the GoDaddy shared hosting account. Would that be enough?
I had thought I would need to set an A record with the host as example.com/sub, but slashes aren't allowed. Any insight greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading!
the only way to get this done that I am aware, is to use some form of land balancer, e.g.:
AWS Elastic Load balancer
Nginx / apache proxy
AWS CloudFormation custom backends
last option will also speed up your site.
Unless your DNS provider have some custom option, DNS alone can't do that.
I have a small website hosted in aws server. I do not want to write a blog engine so I want to use wordpress in cpanel.
Lets say my blogs will show up in domain/blogs url. will it be possible to somehow show the blogs from the wp cpanel when user visits that url and if the user only visits domain.com then they shud be in the aws server.
It seems that you want to keep the website with AWS and host your blog with any other provider.
You can do that via creating the subdomain like blog.domain.com.
1.Get Wordpress hosting with blog.domainname.com and your web host will provide the IP address of their web server.
2.Just go to DNS manager of your domain and add following A record.
blog.domain.com >> webhost's given IP address.
I have my website http://www.mouryadandu.com which is hosted on photo shelter. I recently build a blog and wanted to host it on a separate hosting service. I already was having a multi site hosting service plan and decided to use add on domain to connect my blog. I have pointed the blog.mouryadandu.com subdomain to the server. The DNS propagation took few days but I was finally able to access the blog and successfully modify. Now when I share it, some people across the world are complaning they are seeing error 404 Page not Found. I also when share it on Facebook, its throwing error 404 instead of pulling the image. But for majority it seems not a problem , but I don't want this issue once the blog becomes permanent. I have a feeling there is something wrong with DNS settings, but when I ask my host, they say things are fine at their end. Does anyone have solution for this ?
It looks like your blog host has both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses:
blog.mouryadandu.com. 3600 IN CNAME cpanel17.fozzy.com.
cpanel17.fozzy.com. 14400 IN A 78.140.140.207
cpanel17.fozzy.com. 14400 IN AAAA 2a00:1178:1:43:4::11
When accessing via the 78.140.140.207 address (IPv4), I see your blog just fine. When accessing it via the 2a00:1178:1:43:4::11 address (IPv6), I get the cPanel redirect page (I assume this is the 404 people have been running into).
This is almost certainly a configuration error on the blog host. Can you try enabling IPv6 via cPanel (https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/ALD/Enable+IPv6)?