Use a temporary domain from a service like afraid.org, or use a subdomain. I doubt IP address will work
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Use a temporary domain from a service like afraid.org, or use a subdomain. I doubt IP address will work
Most web hosts allow you to configure custom DNS entries, so you should be able to create an A record for a subdomain (e.g., social.example.com) that points to your Mastodon server.
How do you do that? i started all Services but my IP still only shows a 403 Forbidden Error...
The technical reason is the nginx service is expecting a domain name so it can route it to the right webserver.
You can use nginx to host multiple domains that get sent to different web servers.
For example, i have a pixelfed.mydomain and a mastodon.mydomain configured in nginx, which are both hosted on the same server.
If you're just using an IP address, it won't know where to forward your requests too.
There might be a "default" config you could use, or maybe you could use an IP in the server_name option, but it would be less confusing to just get a temporary domain as u/fruey suggests.