How do I connect my droplet to my domain?

May 19, 2014 6.3k views
chris.e.fust
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chris.e.fust
I know this should be a no-brainer but I need a little help. I have the domain www.cfust.com (registered through godaddy) and I've changed the nameservers to digital ocean's (DS1.DIGITALOCEAN.COM, ... etc) but my site can't be found in browsers and I can't access the digital ocean server with my username and password (root / ********) with my ftp (FileZilla) What am I to do? I have a droplet (cfust.com) with a ip address 162.243.130.240 Also I got a zone file that looks like this $TTL 1800 @ IN SOA NS1.DIGITALOCEAN.COM. hostmaster.cfust.com. ( 1400455440 ; last update: 2014-05-18 23:24:00 UTC 3600 ; refresh 900 ; retry 1209600 ; expire 1800 ; ttl ) IN NS NS1.DIGITALOCEAN.COM. NS NS2.DIGITALOCEAN.COM. NS NS3.DIGITALOCEAN.COM. @ IN A 162.243.130.240 How to I make it so I can access cfust.com with a browser and ftp
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jt May 19, 2014
You need to add an A record for your domain that points to the droplet IP and then install a webserver on the droplet and configure the vhost.

Checkout https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-a-host-name-with-digitalocean

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-configure-the-nginx-web-server-on-a-virtual-private-server
How To Configure The Nginx Web Server On a Virtual Private Server
by Justin Ellingwood
Nginx is a web server and reverse proxy server. This guide will examine some of Nginx's default configuration files in order to better understand how the server works.
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chris.e.fust May 19, 2014
Hey thanks for being very patient with me. I really appreciate it

I have an A record of @ 162.243.130.240 set up

Digital Ocean says I have an image of Ubuntu 14.04 x64 running on the droplet.

I've tried doing whois queries on cfust.com and it doesn't give me an IP

Unfortunately its still not working.

As far as I know it seems like everything should be set up but there's a disconnect between the domain name and the digital servers (I double checked the nameservers and their pointing to digital ocean).
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asb MOD May 19, 2014
Hey Chris,

I can ping your domain and get the right IP. So I don't think the issue is with DNS: 


root@trusty-test:~# ping cfust.com

PING cfust.com (162.243.130.240) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from cfust.com (162.243.130.240): icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=81.9 ms


Running nmap cfust.com show that the only open port is 22. Do you have a firewall set up? Port 80 isn't open.
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