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

[David Malka]

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.  

[Pramodh M]

Hi @voyagesdedavid 

Welcome to the Community!!

Don't you have access to the backend server where the confluence application is running?

You can change the relevant settings in DB

Example for the Base URL reference here

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-do-i-manually-change-the-base-url-310378877.html

Let me know if you have any queries

Thanks,
Pramodh

[David Malka]

Thanks Pramodh.

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

[Pramodh M]

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

[David Malka]

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.