# Setting a custom IP doesn't work?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-a-custom-ip-doesnt-work/277981>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** unsupported-install\
**Created:** [September 6, 2023, 8:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-a-custom-ip-doesnt-work/277981 "2023-09-06T08:09:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 8:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-a-custom-ip-doesnt-work/277981/1 "2023-09-06T08:09:26Z")

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Hello everyone,  
recently I tried to discourse on my debian server everything went ok expect that I could not access the site due to I tried to change the port to access it but only nginx shows up so I figured the problem out so I tried to set a custom ip with a custom network what would point out to my network but I couldn’t access it it keep on giving me errors this is the error I get:

```plaintext
 ./launcher start app --docker-args --network discourse_back --ip 192.168.1.4
x86_64 arch detected.
docker: Error response from daemon: network -i not found.
Your Docker installation is not working correctly

See: https://meta.discourse.org/t/docker-error-on-bootstrap/13657/18?u=sam

```

I also tried it before using hello-world and it worked

```plaintext
docker run -it --network discourse_back --ip 192.168.1.4 hello-world

Hello from Docker!

. . .

```

does anyone have a idea how do I fix it? Thanks in advance!

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