Accessing Droplet using IP ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

Posted on January 17, 2021

Hi,

I have a Droplet with Ubuntu + Apache + Wordpress, and I need to access it using the public IP. However, when I try to access the browser, I receive an ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED.

I realized that he tries to go to https. Then in the browser bar it looks like this: https://XX.XXX.XXX.XXX/

Some useful things: I’m not using SSL in the file 000-default.conf I did not notice redirection in the .htaccess file I didn’t notice redirects

What could be happening? Thanks!

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Bobby

January 17, 2021

Hi there @Stykler,

It could be that your WordPress Site and Home URL are set to https://your_ip rather than http://your_ip. I would suggest setting them back to http and then giving it a try again.

Another thing that could be causing this is that by default Chrome now redirects http to https. Does it work if you manually put http in your browser?

Regards, Bobby