# Forcing access to Discourse via domain name only
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcing-access-to-discourse-via-domain-name-only/70574
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [September 22, 2017, 1:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcing-access-to-discourse-via-domain-name-only/70574 "2017-09-22T13:39:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Carlo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Carlo)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2017, 1:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcing-access-to-discourse-via-domain-name-only/70574/1 "2017-09-22T13:39:33Z")
Hi everyone. So I have setup Discourse and configure Cloudflare and SSL connection.
So far so good. Now I see my website is accessible via the domain name and the default ip, which I do not want.
When I use a CMS such as Wordpress or Modx ( on apache ), I normally configure the ht.access to do the trick. But Discourse is not on Apache…
Is there a way to do that with Nginx ? I am not even sure that Discourse uses it.
Anyway that is the code I would be using:
```
# Tells the browser to always force SSL.
# Do not use this line if there is a chance you will turn off SSL
add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains";
if ($scheme != "https") {
rewrite ^ https://discourse.mydomain.com$request_uri permanent;
}
if ($host != "discourse.mydomain.com") {
rewrite ^ https://discourse.mydomain.com$request_uri permanent;
}
```
Any suggestions ?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Carlo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Carlo)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2017, 8:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcing-access-to-discourse-via-domain-name-only/70574/2 "2017-10-05T08:39:47Z")
Still haven’t find a simple way to do it.
If anyone has a solution I’d be grateful 🙂
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2017, 1:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcing-access-to-discourse-via-domain-name-only/70574/3 "2017-10-05T13:25:23Z")
It sounds like your question is something like:
host:port at 123.123.123.123:8080
domain `example.com` maps to host:port
you don’t want requests for host:port to work, but only requests for the domain that are mapped to the host:port
But that doesn’t make sense to me and the code example you posted isn’t about that so I am confused.
What instructions did you follow for your install and is this a domain name, host IP, or port problem?
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### Author:  [@Carlo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Carlo)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2017, 2:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcing-access-to-discourse-via-domain-name-only/70574/4 "2017-10-05T14:05:57Z")
Really sorry I didn’t make myself clear.
Let say my website is hosted on the ip: 123.123.123.123
And this is my domain name: [forum.example.com](http://forum.example.com)
Right now, visitors can browse the forum by accessing the ip 123.123.123.123
**What I want is:**
When someone goes to the ip, it will be redirect to [forum.example.com](http://forum.example.com)
The issue is that I am not able to locate ngnix default file.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcing-access-to-discourse-via-domain-name-only/70574/5 "2017-10-05T14:21:12Z")
Enable https. Run disourse-setup again and give your email address for the let’s encrypt question.