# Discourse and Noip
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-noip/223648
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 7, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-noip/223648 "2022-04-07T17:48:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Xcept](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Xcept)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-noip/223648/1 "2022-04-07T17:48:22Z")
hi, when i enter noip domain to discourse setup i get: port 443 of computer does not appear to be accessable using hostname.
when i ping that noip domain there is no response
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2022, 5:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-noip/223648/2 "2022-04-07T17:52:59Z")
Are you trying to host Discourse on a domestic internet connection?
Does the router/firewall have port 443 opened and forwarded to the machine where Discourse will be installed.
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### Author:  [@Xcept](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Xcept)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2022, 5:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-noip/223648/3 "2022-04-07T17:56:35Z")
yes, port 443 is opened
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-noip/223648/4 "2022-04-07T17:57:28Z")
Is there a software firewall on the host? Is the Ubuntu install a physical machine or a virtual server?
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### Author:  [@Xcept](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Xcept)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2022, 5:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-noip/223648/5 "2022-04-07T17:58:31Z")
physical machine, i disabled all firewalls
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### Author:  [@Simon\_Manning](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Simon_Manning)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2022, 6:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-noip/223648/6 "2022-04-07T18:10:26Z")
Have you confirmed that the noip domain currently points to the correct IP address? If you can visit [https://www.whatismyip.com](https://www.whatismyip.com) from the same network as the server, you can compare that with the result when looking up the domain name at [https://www.whatismyip.com/dns-lookup/](https://www.whatismyip.com/dns-lookup/)
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### Author:  [@Xcept](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Xcept)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-noip/223648/7 "2022-04-07T18:19:25Z")
yes i confirmed. but ping (ping (domian)) gives no output
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2022, 6:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-noip/223648/8 "2022-04-07T18:22:30Z")
Your ISP might be blocking ports and ICMP.
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### Author:  [@Xcept](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Xcept)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2022, 6:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-noip/223648/9 "2022-04-07T18:57:40Z")
already fixed thanks for all your help
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2022, 7:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-noip/223648/10 "2022-04-07T19:38:09Z")
And how did you solve it?
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### Author:  [@Xcept](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Xcept)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2022, 7:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-noip/223648/11 "2022-04-07T19:47:43Z")
just i installed development verision that is running on ip adress
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2022, 7:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-noip/223648/12 "2022-04-08T07:11:53Z")
You don’t want to run the development version on a public ip. Lots of security is turned off. For example, you can log in as any user without a password.
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### Author:  [@Xcept](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Xcept)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2022, 12:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-noip/223648/13 "2022-04-08T12:41:31Z")
please, someone send me instructions to set up discourse on noip hostname 🙂
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2022, 1:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-noip/223648/14 "2022-04-08T13:13:12Z")
Why do you need it on noip? You can use cloudflare tunnels instead which is much better.
> [@Install Discourse on a residential internet with Cloudflare Tunnel](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-on-a-residential-internet-with-cloudflare-tunnel/211297):
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> Since [Discourse now has support for running on a Raspberry Pi](https://blog.discourse.org/2021/12/2021-12-07-discourse-on-a-raspberry-pi/), running a small instance in your home lab will become a common use case. However, many residential ISPs block incoming traffic to the ports 80/443 that Discourse need. For our demo site at [https://discourse-on-a-pi.falco.dev/](https://discourse-on-a-pi.falco.dev/) we used [Cloudflare Tunnel](https://blog.cloudflare.com/tunnel-for-everyone/) to work around this, and you can do it too! Setup your tunnel First, follow the following guide: The only change you need is changing the URL from url: http://localhost:8000 to url…
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### Author:  [@Xcept](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Xcept)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2022, 1:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-noip/223648/15 "2022-04-08T13:32:25Z")
because i don’t wanna pay
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2022, 1:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-noip/223648/16 "2022-04-08T13:33:38Z")
Cloudflare tunnels is free
ref: [A Boring Announcement: Free Tunnels for Everyone](https://blog.cloudflare.com/tunnel-for-everyone/)
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### Author:  [@Xcept](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Xcept)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2022, 1:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-noip/223648/17 "2022-04-08T13:35:58Z")
ok, how to do it 🙂 ?
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2022, 1:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-noip/223648/18 "2022-04-08T13:36:33Z")
Follow the instructions.
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### Author:  [@Xcept](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Xcept)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2022, 1:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-noip/223648/19 "2022-04-08T13:59:24Z")
is there any other solution? i don’t want to give my credit card number to cloudflare.
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2022, 2:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-noip/223648/20 "2022-04-08T14:38:31Z")
No, there’s no other official solution. You’re on your own
Edit: Discourse is a Free & Open-Source software which you can host yourself without having to pay for any upfront purchase of license etc.
However, You still have to pay for a domain name, hosting, email etc. These costs can not be avoided.
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