I am setting up a small droplet ($5/mo) with a basic Wordpress installation. I followed the instructions for setting up Wordpress using the LAMP stack from here.

The installation itself seems to be fine, the problem I am having now is that I cannot redirect my domain name to the Wordpress site. The behavior I am seeing is if I go to my droplet’s IP address in the browser I am taken to the Wordpress site; however, if I enter my domain name I am taken to the “Is this your domain name? Click here to manage your domain” splash page that my provider uses (domain.com).

I followed the Digital Ocean host name tutorial directions here. To review, this is what I have done so far:

• I logged into my domain provider and changed the name servers to the x3 Digital Ocean name servers
• In the DO control panel I went to the DNS tab and added my domain name to my droplet.
  • I have an A record that is @ and then my droplet’s IP address (e.g. a.b.c.d)
  • I have a CNAME record that is * and then my desired domain (e.g. example.com)
  • The three name servers are the Digital Ocean name servers.
• In the Apache /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf file, I have:

        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html
        ServerName example.com
        <Directory /var/www/html/>
                AllowOverride All
        </Directory>

(Where example.com is my actual domain name.) I saw in another thread that I should edit the other file that is not 000-default.conf; however, 000-default.conf is the only file I have in that directory.

Port 80 is open - see output of sudo netstat -plunt:

$ sudo netstat -plunt
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      881/sshd
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      969/sendmail: MTA:
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:3306          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      2604/mysqld
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:587           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      969/sendmail: MTA:
tcp6       0      0 :::22                   :::*                    LISTEN      881/sshd
tcp6       0      0 :::80                   :::*                    LISTEN      4626/apache2

Please let me know if there’s anything else I can provide.

EDIT: I made all these changes ~24 hours ago. I realize that sometimes it takes a little while to propagate the changes, but I believe that it’s still well below 24 hours…