By ozwiz
I am on Ubuntu with Nginx.
When I try to access the server by IP, I get a 404 error.
My server configuration looks like this:
server {
listen 443 ssl;
root /var/www/wordpress;
server_name domain.com;
# Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
# try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}
location = /favicon.ico { log_not_found off; access_log off; }
location = /robots.txt { log_not_found off; access_log off; allow all; }
location ~* \.(css|gif|ico|jpeg|jpg|js|png)$ {
expires max;
log_not_found off;
}
# pass PHP scripts to FastCGI server
#
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
#
# # With php-fpm (or other unix sockets):
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
# # With php-cgi (or other tcp sockets):
# fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}
}
server {
# listen 443 ssl;
server_name domain.com www.domain.com;
# location /xmlrpc.php {
# deny all;
# }
# rewrite ^(.*[^/])$ $1/ permanent;
return 301 https://domain.com$request_uri;
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.com/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.com/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
}
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Accepted Answer
Hi there @ozwiz,
What you could do in this case is add your Droplet’s IP address to your server_name list. So it would look like this:
server_name domain.com your_server_ip_address;
However what I could suggest is rather than doing this, it would be better to create a redirect so that if anyone visits the IP address of your Droplet they would get redirected to your domain name instead. I believe that this would be better in terms of SEO.
Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby
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