Lightsail Wordpress website responding on unknown ips addresses

Hello everyone, I have a WordPress website hosted on Lightsail, which not only responds to the correct domain but also to two IPs that seem to be from AWS. The domain is hosted on Cloudflare, which, in turn, points to a Lightsail load balancer, which currently only has one Lightsail instance attached. The database is separate, but it's also within Lightsail.

In this account, there are no other configured services apart from the ones I mentioned.

Could you please help me identify what's going on?

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Compute Networking & Content Delivery

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Amazon Lightsail Elastic Load Balancing

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English

Timeu

asked 6 months ago181 views

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Hello.

Lightsail's load balancer is redundant, so it should have multiple IP addresses.
When you resolve the Lightsail load balancer's DNS name with the command below, the same IP address should be displayed.

nslookup Lightsail_load_balancer_DNS

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Riku_Kobayashi

answered 6 months ago

Timeu
6 months ago
Alright! So, how do I prevent the website from being accessed via any of these IP addresses? The idea is for the site to be accessible only through the domain.

After all, Google and other search tools are finding these IPs when I search for the site.
Riku_Kobayashi EXPERT
6 months ago
How about configuring the redirection as described in the documentation below? https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en_us/articles/amazon-lightsail-configure-load-balancer-https-redirection
Timeu
6 months ago
Ahmm... this does not block users from accessing the website using the IP instead of domain

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