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DigitalOcean is not redirecting website address to the droplet

Posted on July 12, 2019

After finishing setting up the droplet and website code, I tried to access the website, but all browsers returned 404. I double checked everything to see possible mistakes I made, but everything looks ok.

Entering the droplet IP on the browser returns the nginx default page, meaning that the droplet itself is fine.

Then I concluded that the problem resides in the address redirection process, I’ve deleted the A and AAAA configs and created them again. Still nothing.

DigitalOcean apparently can’t redirect the url request to my droplet.

From what I’ve seen from other questions, some people are having problems related aswell.


ps aux | grep nginx

root      2916  0.0  0.0 141244  7028 ?        Ss   Jul11   0:00 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master_process on;
www-data  2943  0.0  0.0 143832  6336 ?        S    Jul11   0:00 nginx: worker process
www-data  2944  0.0  0.0 143832  6336 ?        S    Jul11   0:00 nginx: worker process
www-data  2945  0.0  0.0 143832  6336 ?        S    Jul11   0:00 nginx: worker process
www-data  2946  0.0  0.0 143832  6336 ?        S    Jul11   0:00 nginx: worker process
root      3121  0.0  0.0  14856  1008 pts/1    S+   00:04   0:00 grep --color=auto nginx

website: advicequest.com droplet ip: 67.205.160.73

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