By psmod2
Hi,
I have a droplet with Dokku and my site is running all ok with my own domain www.mydomain.com.
However its also accessible through the public IP address.
I was just wondering:
1 - Is this a security risk in any way? The site has SSL however that is linked to mydomain.com, if you visit the page with the IP, you’ll see the ‘certificate warning error’ - CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID. So if someone uses that, they are risking their data being passed unencrypted.
2 - I’ve disabled it using:
server {
server_name 1xx.xx.xxx.xx;
return 301 https://www.mydomain.com;
}
in the default file located at /etc/nginx/sites-enabled. This works, however is it the correct approach?
Thanks.
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Access via the IP will always be an option as you have to have a public IP of some sort to allow others to connect.
If you’re only hosting a single domain on the Droplet, or if you have a preferred domain for a redirect, you could always force redirect direct IP access to a domain.
For example:
server {
listen 80;
server_name DROPLET_IP;
return 301 $scheme://yourdomain.com$request_uri;
}
Simply replace DROPLET_IP with the public IP address of your Droplet and yourdomain.com with the domain you’d like to redirect to.
The $scheme and $request_uri portions will handle enforcing HTTP/HTTPS and the requests.
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