By Nadia K
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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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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:
- https://serverfault.com/questions/172571/is-something-wrong-with-dns-when-the-domain-resolves-but-the-ip-address-throws-a/172572
- https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/171611/why-can-i-access-a-website-using-its-domain-name-but-i-cannot-when-using-its-ip
I hope this helps. Keep us posted!
Best regards,
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