Pre-empted myself, need to connect when DNS no longer resolves

Question

Hello.

I'm sure that I knew the answer to this one years ago.

Moving from hosted Confluence, to Cloud.

Previously, I hit my domain with https://invalid.com/confluence.   But I stupidly pre-empted myself and transferred invalid.com to a new provider, so that I could start to set up mail aliases in preparation for the shutdown of my primary mx.

Obviously, now I can't get  to my Confluence instance.  I did try a redirect on the new registrar's DNS dashboard, and forwarded

https://invalid.com --> to my domain.

Then I try https://invalid.com/confluence and it does bring up the login page, but when I enter my credentials, goes straight back to 'you look to be new around here..'

I can't hit it internally with the server's IP.

Just need it a few more times, to export my spaces and get ready to move to Cloud.

Any help appreciated.

voyagesdedavid · Answer

What do I set it to, considering that the domain name invalid.com no longer directs to my server here?

I also have access to DNS but creating an A record isn't working to direct to the Confluence instance.

Pramodh M · Answer

No in DB!! @voyagesdedavid

The configuration related information are all stored in DB

You need to change that in order to take effect

As I have already provided the example, please refer

Let me know if you have queries

voyagesdedavid · Answer

Thanks Pramodh.

I thought this would be in one of the flat files in $CONFLUENCEHOME.  This is Confluence 5.7.  Is that relevant?