# Port issue - Please help

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/port-issue-please-help/179978
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [February 17, 2021, 3:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/port-issue-please-help/179978 "2021-02-17T03:23:14Z")
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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2021, 1:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/port-issue-please-help/179978/2 "2021-02-17T13:37:45Z")

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You should use the [Discourse official Standard Installation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-official-standard-installation/142537).

Discourse requires a hostname. It cannot run with a bare ip number.

Make sure that you don’t have some reverse proxy like cloudflare.

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