Hi, all. So I am losing my mind over here. I recently paid for a domain through Njalla. I can route my email through it without any trouble, but then I thought I might like to self-host a personal website on it. I am using dietpi x86-64 on my homelab, a system on which I successfully host Jellyfin and Navidrome using Tailscale for remote access. I installed Wordpress and everything works just fine. The thing is, the moment I switch the site to an external URL, I simply cannot access it. I have added the A Records on Njalla for the domain to point at my server’s public IP. I have opened ports 80 and 443 through UFW on the server, and pointed them to my the server’s internal IP through the router. I have tried pointing Certbot at the URL, and it fails, returning the error that it couldn’t fetch a file from /.well-known/acme-challenge (although it does show that the URL is pointing at the correct IP). I have changed my router settings to assign a static internal IP to the server.
I am at a loss. I’m sure it’s something really easy and simple that I’m missing, but I cannot find what it is for the life of me. Thank you in advance for any tips or advice.
Sounds good.
Hmm next you probably should confirm ports 80 and 443 are actually reachable from the internet.
Use an online port checker like https://canyouseeme.org/
After that you should check your apache config like somebody else already suggested. I haven’t used apache in a while but if I remember correctly:
Ensure it says: Listen 80 NOT: Listen 127.0.0.1:80
(and same with 443)
Also check your VirtualHost — it should look something like:
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName yourdomain.com DocumentRoot /var/www/wordpress # ... other settings </VirtualHost>(and same with 443)