# Incorrect IpV4? **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-ipv4/152323 **Category:** Self-hosting **Created:** [May 22, 2020, 12:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-ipv4/152323 "2020-05-22T12:23:27Z") **Posts on this page:** 20 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![archie123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@archie123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/archie123) #### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 12:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-ipv4/152323/1 "2020-05-22T12:23:27Z")
Hey! I’m trying to setup my forum in WSL2, and when I put in my forum’s url it says this: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/0/50a9c3aa99d67f120c16a85eb27bb321eb11f31c.png) I don’t know why this is happening, I got my IP in the terminal, set it in my DNS here: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/6/a6fd9e9ea4a48abd1792f95468f2312db6015f4c.png) ---
### Author: ![hawm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f07891/32.png) [@hawm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hawm) #### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 12:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-ipv4/152323/2 "2020-05-22T12:35:14Z")
Disable the Cloudflare proxy may make it work when install. ---
### Author: ![archie123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@archie123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/archie123) #### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 12:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-ipv4/152323/3 "2020-05-22T12:38:47Z")
I unproxied the whole thing but still the same errors. ---
### Author: ![hawm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f07891/32.png) [@hawm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hawm) #### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-ipv4/152323/4 "2020-05-22T12:49:52Z")
My bad. Now i notice that your using the WSL2 to install Discourse, before that please make sure your WSL2 exported service can access from internet. For example, run `python3 -m http.server 8080` or other services, can you access it from your internet address? Additionaly, WSL2 seems not well on [Privileged Ports](https://www.w3.org/Daemon/User/Installation/PrivilegedPorts.html) with Windows host. ---
### Author: ![archie123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@archie123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/archie123) #### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 12:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-ipv4/152323/5 "2020-05-22T12:54:52Z")
I just put that exactly into terminal, and its saying ‘Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8080 ([http://0.0.0.0:8080/](http://0.0.0.0:8080/)) …’ and it has been for 5 minutes now. ---
### Author: ![hawm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f07891/32.png) [@hawm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hawm) #### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 1:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-ipv4/152323/6 "2020-05-22T13:01:45Z")
Open your browser enter [http://your-internet-ip:8080](http://your-internet-ip:8080), could you access any content? ---
### Author: ![hawm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f07891/32.png) [@hawm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hawm) #### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-ipv4/152323/8 "2020-05-22T13:09:41Z")
It may the firewall block yout connection, i can’t help. ---
### Author: ![archie123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@archie123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/archie123) #### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 1:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-ipv4/152323/9 "2020-05-22T13:10:17Z")
Do you know how I can disable the firewall? ---
### Author: ![hawm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f07891/32.png) [@hawm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hawm) #### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 1:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-ipv4/152323/10 "2020-05-22T13:17:51Z")
Wait, the ip `169.254.*.*` is an Automatic **Private IP address** right? You pick an wrong address. ---
### Author: ![archie123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@archie123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/archie123) #### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 1:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-ipv4/152323/11 "2020-05-22T13:18:46Z")
What IP adress am I looking for? There was one next to it, and loads below. ---
### Author: ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma) #### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-ipv4/152323/12 "2020-05-22T13:19:20Z")
What are you trying to do anyway? hosting discourse on your own system or Just want to set up a testing instance? ---
### Author: ![archie123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@archie123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/archie123) #### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-ipv4/152323/13 "2020-05-22T13:20:12Z")
I’m trying to self host using cloudflare and sendgrid ---
### Author: ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma) #### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-ipv4/152323/14 "2020-05-22T13:22:03Z")
That’s a nada if you’re trying to host your discourse in WSL it won’t work. Here are the reasons why: 1. Your PC can’t be running 24x7 2. You probably won’t have a public static IP address 3. Firewall issues with your ISP that would block various ports 4. Internet goes down = Site goes down. I suggest get a cheap VPS from DigitalOcean or Hetzner and set it up there. ---
### Author: ![archie123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@archie123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/archie123) #### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 1:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-ipv4/152323/15 "2020-05-22T13:23:15Z")
Should I use something like Putty? ---
### Author: ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma) #### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 1:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-ipv4/152323/16 "2020-05-22T13:23:45Z")
You need a server before anything else. Do you have a server? ---
### Author: ![archie123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@archie123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/archie123) #### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 1:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-ipv4/152323/17 "2020-05-22T13:24:30Z")
No. Do you mean like a digital oceon type? ---
### Author: ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma) #### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 1:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-ipv4/152323/18 "2020-05-22T13:25:05Z")
Yes, I mean DigitalOcean type Server. You just can not host a public facing application on your Home PC without a boatload of problems. ---
### Author: ![archie123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@archie123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/archie123) #### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-ipv4/152323/19 "2020-05-22T13:26:26Z")
Okay. Is there any reliable server applications/ hosts? ---
### Author: ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma) #### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 1:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-ipv4/152323/20 "2020-05-22T13:27:06Z")
DigitalOcean is very reliable. If You’re cost conscious, You can consider Hetzner. ---
### Author: ![archie123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@archie123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/archie123) #### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-ipv4/152323/21 "2020-05-22T14:26:48Z")
Would heroku work? The free edition that I’m planning on using has 512 mega bytes of ram. [Next page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-ipv4/152323.md?page=2)