After making your changes did you restart/reload Apache for the new configuration to take effect?

service apache2 restart

If so, then I would suggest some other things.

1.) If you have enabled a firewall on your droplet it may be blocking port 899. Try stopping any firewall service to make sure this is not the cause of the issue. If your site begins working, adjust your firewall configuration and restart it.

2.) It’s possible that your ISP or network is blocking or filtering ports that are not commonly used. Some corporate and school firewalls especially may block ports other than a few commonly used ones to prevent filesharing services and other unwanted services. Try connecting from another device or network to see if this is the case.

3.) If none of this resolves the problem, please share your current apache configuration file from /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ and hopefully we can find the issue and suggest a fix.

Yes, Initally when I made the change I restarted apache

1) no firewall is enabled on droplet nor have I touched it since I setup (the site was working, don’t think it’s firewall)

2) I’ve tried it at 3 different environments my work, school, home and the last time it was working was in school. I’ve tried it at work and at home and it doesn’t work.

3) Inside sites-enabled there is a file called –> 000-default and when I open up that file with vim

this is it:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>

  ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
   <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
              AllowOverride None
              Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
               Order allow,deny
               Allow from all
     </Directory>

     ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

      # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
      # alert, emerg.
      LogLevel warn

     CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

Alias /doc/ “/usr/share/doc/”
<Directory “/usr/share/doc/”>
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>