how to disable direct access to a web site by ip address

nginx dns ip server cloudflare
Khaled A picture Khaled A · Mar 17, 2015 · Viewed 52.7k times · Source

I have a website on a VPS.

The issue I am having is that when I enter the IP of the server, it links to the website.
Even when entering mail.domain.com, it does the same thing.

How do I disable that, so a visitor would get a message or be directed to the domain?

I tried disabling the IP and mail a record on cloud flare but it didn't work.

My setup is:

VPS on Linux Debian 
Nginx
no control panel just command line
Cloudflare
DNS setup with BIND

Answer

Chernov picture Chernov · Mar 18, 2015

You can use redirect, nginx config:

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name IP_ADDRESS;
        return 301 http://YOUR.DOMAIN;
}

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