# Perspective redundancy url redirection **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** perspective, ignition81\ **Created:** [February 3, 2025, 11:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-redundancy-url-redirection/101804 "2025-02-03T23:12:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tyler\_Judkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ee7513/32.png) [@Tyler\_Judkins](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Tyler_Judkins)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 11:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-redundancy-url-redirection/101804/1 "2025-02-03T23:12:32Z")
I noticed when testing my redundant gateway configuration that the url on my perspective client when switching to the backup node changes to the backup gateways IP address instead of the hostname. Then when the master comes back on line the url changes to the masters gateway url instead of its hostname. When the client is first opened and browsed to we use the host name. Is there a way to change the fail overs to use hostname instead of the ipaddress? ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-redundancy-url-redirection/101804/2 "2025-02-03T23:22:58Z")
You need to configure the public address in your gateway settings to be the host name, and to _ **not** _ use "automatic". ---
**Author:** ![Tyler\_Judkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ee7513/32.png) [@Tyler\_Judkins](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Tyler_Judkins)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-redundancy-url-redirection/101804/3 "2025-02-04T18:18:22Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/3/6/362e7fe0f8335733f36e1acc9f43d1507c079300.png) Is this the correct setting? I changed it to reflect the full url with the hostname and it still switched to ip address. ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-redundancy-url-redirection/101804/4 "2025-02-04T18:29:19Z")
That setting may take a gateway restart to take effect. (Be sure you do the same on the backup node, and that the backup node points to the master via hostname, too.) ---
**Author:** ![Tyler\_Judkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ee7513/32.png) [@Tyler\_Judkins](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Tyler_Judkins)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-redundancy-url-redirection/101804/5 "2025-02-04T18:52:12Z")
OK, I got it to work. I had to change the ports to 8088 and 8043, then instead of both the master and back up pointed to the hostname of the master I had to switch the back up to point at itself. Tested and everything works perfect😀 Thank you for your help! ---
**Author:** ![oyvind.handeland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ce73a5/32.png) [@oyvind.handeland](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/oyvind.handeland)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 9:11am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-redundancy-url-redirection/101804/6 "2025-04-10T09:11:38Z")
Hi, I have the same problem. My IS1M (IgnitionServer1 Master) and IS2B (IgnitionServer2 Backup) are in a redundant pair and when I stop Ignition on IS1M it starts working on IS2B. From my CS (Client server) I have a running session in my web browser: [https://IS1M:8043/data/perspective/client/MyProject](https://IS1M:8043/data/perspective/client/MyProject) This link stops working when IS2B takes over and I have to switch to [https://IS2B:8043/data/perspective/client/MyProject](https://IS2B:8043/data/perspective/client/MyProject) for it to work. Seems like the "public address" is removed in Ignition 8.1.47? ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 12:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-redundancy-url-redirection/101804/7 "2025-04-10T12:20:53Z")
The link cannot point at both servers for browser-based access. Workstation can be configured with both links, similar to Vision's Client Launcher. A **running** Perspective browser session should transfer automatically, though. (There's never been a public address feature within Ignition that would load either gateway from a single URL.)