# How to disable direct https://ipaddress visit?

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
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**Created:** [9 Settembre 2016, 10:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-disable-direct-https-ipaddress-visit/49927 "2016-09-09T10:06:20Z")\
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You can’t do what you want to do using a firewall. In order to do what you want to achieve, you must first **get a valid, trusted certificate for your server’s IP address**. Until you have that, nothing else can be done. Talk to your preferred CA to organise that.

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