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How come going to my domain redirects to my ip address?

I installed Wordpress onto Ubuntu 16.04, and have connected the name servers to name cheap and everything, which all seems to be done correctly. Whenever I connect to my website, it redirects to the IP address. What should I do to fix this?

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Flamber Hansen • May 3, 2017

Hi @theisevan

You probably setup WordPress on the IP-address before you added the domain, which means WordPress will save that IP as the root configuration.

You can go to http://162.243.40.146/wp-admin/options-general.php and edit both WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) to http://www.evansdetailing.com

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