# Misconfigured DNS preventing discourse-setup completion

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/misconfigured-dns-preventing-discourse-setup-completion/144935>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [March 20, 2020, 11:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/misconfigured-dns-preventing-discourse-setup-completion/144935 "2020-03-20T11:54:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 11:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/misconfigured-dns-preventing-discourse-setup-completion/144935/1 "2020-03-20T11:54:33Z")

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Hi,

I have created a new droplet “Discourse-beta-ubuntu”, then I connected to the Droplet with Putty (root - password) and Discourse’s setup is started.

But setup doesn’t work:

```plaintext
Ports 80 and 443 are free for use
'samples/standalone.yml' -> 'containers/app.yml'
Found 1GB of memory and 1 physical CPU cores
setting db_shared_buffers = 128MB
setting UNICORN_WORKERS = 2
containers/app.yml memory parameters updated.

Hostname for your Discourse? [discourse.example.com]: forum.mywebsite.eu

Checking your domain name . . .
WARNING:: This server does not appear to be accessible at forum.mywebsite.eu:443.

A connection to http://forum.mywebsite.eu (port 80) also fails.

This suggests that forum.mywebsite.eu resolves to the wrong IP address
or that traffic is not being routed to your server.

Google: "open ports YOUR CLOUD SERVICE" for information for resolving this problem.

If you want to proceed anyway, you will need to
edit the containers/app.yml file manually.
Discourse is now installed. Log into your admin account in a browser to continue
configuring Discourse.

```

I have bought the domaind from register.it and added to Cloudflare. I have changed only DNS, to redirect to Cloudflare.

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