Hello everyone,
I’m trying to setup a domain name purchased on GoDaddy with my DigitalOcean droplet. So far, here’s what I’ve done :
Added the DigitalOcean nameservers (NS) in the Godaddy panel
Setup the domain in DigitalOcean for my droplet
If I ping the domain name charlesdemers.com, here’s what I get :
PING charlesdemers.com (45.55.239.198): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 45.55.239.198: icmp_seq=0 ttl=54 time=32.050 ms
64 bytes from 45.55.239.198: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=31.006 ms
64 bytes from 45.55.239.198: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=30.818 ms
64 bytes from 45.55.239.198: icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=32.044 ms
The IP adress is correct, it’s pointing to my droplet’s IP. However, if I try to access the website by typing the domain name, it won’t work. I only get a blank page.
If I type the IP adress its pointing to directly, it works though.
Any idea on what I’m doing wrong? Am I missing a key step?
Thank you all for your help.
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Sure,
You need Apache2
Then
Check if you see this
Everything should work fine. If you still see a blanc page, wait 24h (DNS need some time)
You save HTML files here : /var/www/html
If you need PHP and MySQL just ask
Dns can take anywhere from 30 min - 48 hours, most of the time its pretty quick but for some people it has taken 48 hours, your just at the mercy of how busy the internet is
Your domain works, it was DNS, it takes some time