# Cannot get past bootstrapping

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [April 30, 2025, 7:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-get-past-bootstrapping/364284 "2025-04-30T19:27:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![tknospdr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tknospdr/32/529762_2.png) [@tknospdr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tknospdr)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2025, 10:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-get-past-bootstrapping/364284/12 "2025-05-01T10:36:35Z")

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I wasn’t thinking about the fact that since port 80 is already in use and I only have the one external IP that even though the domain check was passing during the setup process, I had to alter the host side ports to get things going.

I’m using NPM internally.

Steps to get things working:

1. Change host side port to 7080 for http
2. Since I’ll be passing traffic through my proxy manager I simplified my life and disabled the LE scripts
3. Updated the app
4. Passed ‘ext IP:80’ to ‘int IP:7080’ in the reverse proxy, then the container reversed the ports… then they did the Hokey Pokey and turned around.

Now everything so far appears to be working.

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