We are running a Discourse instance on our server, but we’ve encountered an issue where anyone can take our server’s public IP and create an A record on their own domain, effectively pointing their domain to our forum. We want to ensure that only our authorized domain can be used to access the foru…

Prevent Unauthorized Domains from Pointing to Our Discourse Instance

pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) February 9, 2025, 1:35pm 2

Are you using a standard install? By default discourse redirects to the hostname.

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