# Open OnDemand server web hosting

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**Created:** [January 10, 2022, 11:26pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/open-ondemand-server-web-hosting/1863 "2022-01-10T23:26:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![badamifs](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/discourse.openondemand.org/badamifs/32/954_2.png) [@badamifs](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/badamifs)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 11:26pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/open-ondemand-server-web-hosting/1863/1 "2022-01-10T23:26:44Z")

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Hi All,

I am new to implementing OOD and I have been able to install all required dependencies on one of my HPC nodes. However I am not sure how I can access the server from the web browser? Do I need to register a domain? Can I point it to an existing domain?

Apologies if this has been discussed in the past but I could not find the right set of instructions.

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**Author:** ![badamifs](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/discourse.openondemand.org/badamifs/32/954_2.png) [@badamifs](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/badamifs)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/open-ondemand-server-web-hosting/1863/2 "2022-01-10T23:28:33Z")

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Steps 1, 3 and 4 were executed without any errors.

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**Author:** ![jeff.ohrstrom](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/discourse.openondemand.org/jeff.ohrstrom/32/136_2.png) [@jeff.ohrstrom](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/jeff.ohrstrom)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 5:08pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/open-ondemand-server-web-hosting/1863/3 "2022-01-11T17:08:23Z")

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Hi and welcome!

If you installed it on a node - you should be able to access it on that node. What I mean is, what’s the fully qualified domain name of the node you’ve installed it on? Maybe the `hostname` command. Then put that into the browser.

> [@badamifs](#):
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> Do I need to register a domain?

Yes if you can’t directly access the node you’ve installed it on. I mean the node may have some internal hostname, but you’ll likely need some external hostname that you’re local machine can lookup.

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> Can I point it to an existing domain?

If you install OOD on the node that existing domain resolves to.

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**Post date:** [July 10, 2022, 5:08pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/open-ondemand-server-web-hosting/1863/4 "2022-07-10T17:08:46Z")

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