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404 accessing site by IP, but works with domain name

I followed this tutorial and successfully set up WordPress on my server (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-with-lemp-on-ubuntu-18-04). The domain name (with and without www) takes me to the WordPress configuration page, but trying to access the site using the IP address gives me a 404.

Before installing WordPress, both the domain name and the IP address would take me to the site without any issues.

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Denislav Gavrilov • June 8, 2020

Hi @NoodlesYum,

It is highly-likely this is related to your nginx configuration. I will give you some points to check, as well as some other posts from around the web:

  • Do you have other domain names linked to that IP?
  • Is your domain properly linked to your droplet?
  • Is your website behind a CDN?

Resources:

I hope this helps. Keep us posted!

Best regards,

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