I bought a domain from google domains and have pointed it to the digital oceans name servers but whenever I go to the domain name it comes back with “jdhall.dev refused to connect”.
I checked on https://www.whatsmydns.net and the domain seems to be ok there, my website works when I go to the ip address but not the domain address.
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Hi @jdhall,
It sounds like to me like you didn’t have a proper virtual configuration created about your domain - jdhall.dev.
As for the https related problem, it would mean you don’t have an SSL certificate and it does seem like the configuration file for SSL was not configured.
As I don’t see you posting if you are using either Apache or Nginx, I’ll provide you with both articles :
Apache
Nginx
Both tutorials use Let’s Encrypt which is free to work with and I’ll recommend going through the tutorial which is relevant to your WebService.
Regards, KDSys
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