Question
Can't access my droplet's website via IP address
- Posted on February 6, 2022
Asked by Suefen Cuti
I can ssh to my droplet’s IP address and git clone, git pull to get my code from github.
After I run “node stringserver” in my droplet, I did see the console log and in another terminal of my droplet, I can see the http output using curl.
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root@nodejsAssignments:~/assignment1-tucisf# node stringserver Server running at http://localhost:8080/
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root@nodejsAssignments:~# curl http://localhost:8080 Hello World
However, when I go to chrome, using the IP address to access my droplet web server, I get
"This site can’t be reached xxx.xxx.xxx.xx refused to connect. Try:
Checking the connection Checking the proxy and the firewall ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED"
To make sure my digital ocean’s droplet is really not reachable as a web server, I tried IE, Firefox, and curl from my own machine, all got the same error: the site “refused to connect”
Please help, Thanks, Suefen
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Hello there,
This will usually indicate that the virtual host for the IP address is not configured properly.
You can check if your node config and if you’ve specifically binded the app to 127.0.0.1
Example:
just remove the IP and make the whole line:
This will bind it to all IPs.
Regards