External URL isn't configurable through the UI

Configuration
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I am trying to configure my Home Assistant URL through the Configuration → General page. I enabled advanced mode for my user. I expected there to be fields for both the External URL and the Local URL, however, it appears there is only a single field for Local Network.

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I do have SSL configured (using the Let’s Encrypt add-on) in my configuration.yaml file, but nothing else that I would have thought would prevent configuring the external URL:

# Configure a default setup of Home Assistant (frontend, api, etc)
default_config:

# Uncomment this if you are using SSL/TLS, running in Docker container, etc.
http:
  ssl_certificate: /ssl/fullchain.pem
  ssl_key: /ssl/privkey.pem
  ip_ban_enabled: true
  login_attempts_threshold: 5

group: !include groups.yaml
automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml

Does anyone know why I wouldn’t be able to configure the External URL through the UI?

2

Hi, I did not find it either but you are right, it used to be there. I believe that this option disappeared in 2022.4 but did not find any information about the reason of this change. Fortunately though, you can still configure the external url in config yaml.

3

Thanks! I’m glad I’m not the only one it’s missing for!