Question
Unable to point domain name to digital ocean Wordpress droplet ip address
- Posted on May 12, 2017
- WordPressDNSDigitalOceanCMSUbuntu 16.04
Asked by Robert Neal
Hey guys I’m having a problem pointing my digital ocean Wordpress droplet to a domain name I have. I’ve already been through this tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-host-name-with-digitalocean and at the moment:
test.dumontocdhelp.com , www.dumontocdhelp.com , or anything else before .dumontocdhelp.com will redirect to my droplet’s ip address [ http://45.55.244.247 ].
However If I try dumontocdhelp.com i get redirected to https://dumontocdhelp.com/ which gives me an error page that says
This site can’t be reached dumontocdhelp.com refused to connect.
Not sure if it has something to do with the https, any help would be great.
** Also yes I did make an A record to also connect my IP to a domain name with nothing before it for dumontocdhelp.com *
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@robneal28
If WordPress was installed using the Droplet IP, then WordPress is using the IP address pulled from the environment/URL/headers. To change the URL that WordPress uses, the easiest method would be to edit
wp-config.phpand add in:Change
example.comto your domain in eachdefine(). You’d then refresh the page and that’ll set the domain that WordPress uses to your domain.Once the domain is updated, you may need to make one more change and that’d be to Apache and the VirtualHost block that your domain uses.
Your VirtualHost blocks are located in
/etc/apache2/. You’d need to change the IP being used for the host to your domain and then restart Apache using:As long as your DNS is correct, that should fix issues with your domain not working.
I’m having the same issue.