Change base URL

[Hannah Groseclose]

Hi all, 

So I recently installed Confluence 6.7.2 on Windows Server 2012 R2. Setup went fine but I'm hitting a roadblock attempting to change the Base URL for the product. When the base URL is changed from http://localhost:8090 to a FQDN like http://wiki.companyname.com, I'm not able to access the site from any browser internally.

I've created an internal A record for the site such that wiki.companyname.com points to the internal IP of the associated server and I still can't reach the site. Anything I'm missing here? I thought it would be as easy as changing baseURL in the product and then creating a DNS A record.

Thanks, 

Keith

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Does your DNS also map the port?  If not, then try http://wiki.companyname.com:8090 .  You'll probably need to check all the firewalls and network routing too - try a tracert to the FQDN to check if you can get there.

[Hannah Groseclose]

Nic, 

Thanks for the quick reply. That was the trick to fix it, can't believe I missed something so simple. lol. Need more coffee :) Now to do some research to change the listening port and I should be good to go. 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You can persuade the Tomcat to run on port 80 (or 443 for https), which will make it work as almost every browser will make that assumption by default, based on the protocol!

However, it's generally better to use a proxy.  Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd etc can all take an incoming "port 80" and proxy it to "your confluence:8090" - it's easier to configure, keeps the proxy and Confluence server updates separate and independent, and allows you to run several services on different ports as part of the same site or as subdomains.