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Cannot see default Nginx landing page on droplet

Posted February 9, 2020 274 views
Nginx

I am trying to do a simple nginx setup on my DO droplet.

Following this tutorial : https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-nginx-on-ubuntu-16-04

However after the installation when i check for running status using systemctl status nginx I get no issues:
Screenshot

However, when i try to access the server using browser http://ip_address i get no default nginx landing page(as mentioned in the post). I only see cannot GET \ and 404 not found in network window.

What could be the issue here?

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Shiroka February 9, 2020

Hi sir,maybe you can try this command

apt -y install nginx

and

nginx

And your screenshot URL is wrong,the proper one is this.
You forgot to add a : in it.

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  • Shiroka February 9, 2020

    And here is another way to install nginx

    #Download
wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.13.6.tar.gz
#Unzip
tar -zxvf nginx-1.13.6.tar.gz
#go into the folder
cd nginx-1.13.6
#config
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nginx 
#program
make
#install
sudo make install
#start
sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -c /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf
Note: -c specifies the path of the configuration file. If not, nginx will automatically load the configuration file of the default path. You can view the help command with -h.
#watch
ps -ef | grep nginx

    then

    sudo ln -s /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx /usr/bin/nginx

    nginx
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  • Shiroka February 9, 2020

    And,if your server report an error,please use apt -y remove nginx and repeat the steps above.

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  • xerxes3117 February 9, 2020

    No this doesn’t work. Still getting the same issue.

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    • Shiroka February 9, 2020

      A new way I answered is being the DigitalOcean team’s review,please wait.Or you can commit a work-ticket to look for help.Maybe someone in stackoverflow have a similar problem and they have experience.

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VUTURE March 9, 2020

We had the issue, that we used the DO firewall and needed to add a rule “HTTP” on both inbound and outbound - after adding HTTP rules it worked.
Before we also forgot through using Putty to select our new username instead of root via Putty>Connection>Data>Auto-login name. That got us some errors.

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