Hi!
I just bought a domain at Namecheap.com.
I have a server with just one IP and I would like to run Discourse on the port 8080 as 80 is already occupied by my website.
When I want to setup an A record for discourse with the port 8080, namecheap says that it’s not a valid IP adress.
Any help is highly appreciated!
Ports are completely out-of-scope in terms of DNS.
DNS maps names to IP addresses.
Port associations is done on your server, not in the DNS.
So what should I use instead in this case?
You’re putting yourself in a very complex territory.
What I can suggest is to run discourse on a subdomain or in a subdirectory.
Yeah, I want to run it on a subdomain! But I don’t know how to tell my nginx proxy that you’re coming from the subdomain.
Create an A Record for sub.example.com with the IP address where You host forum
Then in nginx proxy,
use server_name sub.example.com;
And forward all requests to docker container running discourse.
ooooh! Didn’t think of that! Thank you so much!
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