# Forcing hostname has broken support for Onion Services

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcing-hostname-has-broken-support-for-onion-services/102419
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 20, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcing-hostname-has-broken-support-for-onion-services/102419 "2018-11-20T20:35:26Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2018, 12:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcing-hostname-has-broken-support-for-onion-services/102419/4 "2018-11-26T00:46:03Z")

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Fundamentally the problem is we expect Discourse sites just to have 1 domain. The reason for this is that we send out emails and have to pick a domain we can not pick random.

I am not following why not have the onion address as your hostname.

If you really really want to enable this ninja I am allowed to have 2 domains going feature, you can use a plugin, example of a commit that made this work for my blog is here:

[https://github.com/SamSaffron/blog/commit/d09f5ea409e4a3a5d4905f511273bc0566e21cff](https://github.com/SamSaffron/blog/commit/d09f5ea409e4a3a5d4905f511273bc0566e21cff)

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