Question
A record redirects to ip instead of domain
- Posted on March 3, 2022
- DigitalOcean DropletsDNSSecurityWordPress
Asked by caslarui
I have 2 web applications which are on different hosts. The main one (example.com) is on another hosting with domain connected to it, the second one (sub.example.com) is a wordpress website on DigitalOcean. For this, in the dns manager I created an A record which is pointing to ip of the DigitalOcean Droplet. After that, I setted the wordpress application with the desired subdomain and added SSL certificate for the subdomain in droplet.
The connection is working fine, when I’m accessing sub.example.com, it is redirecting to the wordpress website, but if users for the first time type sub.example.com, they are being redirected to https://ip_adress and gets a “ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID”
I tried to add a redirect from ip to subdomain in apache config, but without any result…
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^18\.182\.216\.244$1
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://sub.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
</IfModule>
What can I do to solve this issue ?
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Hi there,
Once you’ve pointed your domain name to your server IP address, you would also need to define your new WordPress site and home URLs so that they match your new domain name. One way to do that would be to add the following to your
wp-config.phpfile:Make sure to also install an SSL certificate so that you could have HTTPS enabled:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-apache-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-18-04
Best,
Bobby