# Custom URL with MusicBrainz Docker
**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/custom-url-with-musicbrainz-docker/514402
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** docker, musicbrainz-vm
**Created:** [January 17, 2021, 3:55pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/custom-url-with-musicbrainz-docker/514402 "2021-01-17T15:55:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@mikenjenni](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/mikenjenni)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2021, 3:55pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/custom-url-with-musicbrainz-docker/514402/1 "2021-01-17T15:55:32Z")
I have MusicBrainz Docker up and running perfectly.
I edited the .env file and added the following line:
MUSICBRAINZ\_WEB\_SERVER\_HOST=172.16.0.10
This allows me to access locally at [http://172.16.0.10:5000](http://172.16.0.10:5000) with absolutely no issues at all.
My questions is, what adjustments would be needed to access it with a custom url (i.e. [musicbrainz.myurl.com](http://musicbrainz.myurl.com)) behind nginx reverse proxy? I have MANY other services running behind nginx with no issues at all but I cannot get MusicBrainz to display css correctly
I tried editing the .env file with MUSICBRAINZ\_WEB\_SERVER\_HOST=[musicbrainz.myurl.com](http://musicbrainz.myurl.com) but this does not work. It seems to reference [https://musicbrainz.myurl.com:5000](https://musicbrainz.myurl.com:5000)
I cannot figure out how to have MusicBrainz remove the reference to port 5000 in the URL
Are there any additional edits that I need to make to the .env file to strip Port 5000 from the url?
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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### Author:  [@yvanzo](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/yvanzo)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2021, 4:33pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/custom-url-with-musicbrainz-docker/514402/2 "2021-01-19T16:33:06Z")
Hi,
Port number could not be hidden without dealing with configuration in `DBDefs.pm` directly. I just opened a patch to address that, it will just drop inconvenient `:80` and `:443` from base URL:
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### Author:  [@mikenjenni](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/mikenjenni)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2021, 6:02pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/custom-url-with-musicbrainz-docker/514402/3 "2021-01-19T18:02:33Z")
@yvanzo, that seemed to do the trick! I manually added your changes to the DBDefs.pm file.
I then edited the .env file with the following changes:
MUSICBRAINZ\_WEB\_SERVER\_HOST=[musicbrainz.myurl.com](http://musicbrainz.myurl.com)
MUSICBRAINZ\_WEB\_SERVER\_PORT=80
Now, I can access everything perfectly at [http://172.16.0.10](http://172.16.0.10) or [https://musicbrainz.myurl.com](https://musicbrainz.myurl.com)
Thank You!
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### Author:  [@jesus2099](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/jesus2099)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2021, 3:32pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/custom-url-with-musicbrainz-docker/514402/4 "2021-01-20T15:32:44Z")
> [@mikenjenni](#):
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> MUSICBRAINZ\_WEB\_SERVER\_HOST=musicbrainz.myurl.com
> ~~MUSICBRAINZ\_WEB\_SERVER\_PORT=80~~
You can simply set HOST and omit PORT completely, as `80` is the default value.
It [worked for me](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/problems-accessing-musicbrainz-over-local-network/206105/18).
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### Author:  [@yvanzo](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/yvanzo)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2021, 6:00pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/custom-url-with-musicbrainz-docker/514402/5 "2021-01-20T18:00:08Z")
[quote=“jesus2099, post:4, topic:514402”]
You can simply set HOST and omit PORT completely, as `80` is the default value.
It [worked for me](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/problems-accessing-musicbrainz-over-local-network/206105/18).[/quote]
@jesus2099: The default port number is `5000`. Might it be you made local changes to the file `build/musicbrainz/DBDefs.pm`?
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### Author:  [@jesus2099](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/jesus2099)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2023, 11:27am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/custom-url-with-musicbrainz-docker/514402/6 "2023-05-29T11:27:49Z")
Sorry Yvanzo, maybe yes, but I don’t remember.
And my very old PC is now broken.