Help! 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable when trying to reverse-proxy wordpress

[Fabrice Triboix]

I finally found out the root cause of the problem. I initially installed 
wordpress by accessing the server directly using its IP address (when 
the DNS was not up and running yet). Apparently, wordpress decides to 
save that into its database and serves the links based on that...

I deleted the wordpress database, re-installed it by accessing the 
server using the host name, and voila! Everything works perfectly now!

On 27/06/17 09:51, Fabrice Triboix wrote:
> Hi Francis,
>
> You are right, most links in the wordpress html start with 
> "http://92.222.75.87/..." so that's the problem.
> I'll try to get that fixed.
>
> Many thanks for your help!
>
>   Fabrice
>
> On 27/06/17 00:16, Francis Daly wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 06:24:50PM +0100, Fabrice Triboix wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>>> I looked again at the requests from the browser (chrome), and I can
>>> see something peculiar: the requests for "/" and "/favicon.ico" have
>>> a header "Host: incise.co"; however the other requests have a header
>>> "Host: 92.222.75.87". That's really weird... Could that be the cause
>>> of the problem?
>> Yes.
>>
>>> If yes, how come the browser sends the IP address
>>> for the "Host" header, which is after all meant to allow servicing
>>> different domains on the same IP address?
>> Do
>>
>> curl -v http://incise.co/
>>
>> which sends a http 301, so then do
>>
>> curl -v https://incise.co/
>>
>> and look at the returned content.
>>
>> Whatever server is listening there is returning the html content with
>> links to things below https://92.222.75.87/
>>
>> Most likely, your wordpress is configured to do that. If you can 
>> configure
>> your wordpress to start all internal links with "/" instead of "http",
>> it will probably Just Work.
>>
>> Alternatively, in the nginx config that you did not show, perhaps
>> "proxy_set_header Host $http_host;" was not present.
>>
>> Good luck with it,
>>
>>     f
>
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