I have already configured a domain name to map to digital ocean droplet. The IP url is working fine. But when i navigate to kitika.dev i get a timeout. Is it because dev only allow https? It is not working over http
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Hi,
If you recently made changes to the domain it is possible that DNS caches have not expired. For instance, if I curl your domain I receive this response:
curl kitika.dev
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to nginx!</title>
<style>
body {
width: 35em;
margin: 0 auto;
font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome to nginx!</h1>
<p>If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and
working. Further configuration is required.</p>
<p>For online documentation and support please refer to
<a href="http://nginx.org/">nginx.org</a>.<br/>
Commercial support is available at
<a href="http://nginx.com/">nginx.com</a>.</p>
<p><em>Thank you for using nginx.</em></p>
</body>
</html>
The old DNS was not cached for my ISP so I am able to resolve the domain and am connecting to your droplet (presumably).
Sometimes DNS caches and propagation can take up to 48H although its usually no more than 4-8 hours these days.
Hope this helps and good luck - reach back out if the problem has not cleared up soon.
When I check on https://dnschecker.org. It seems to have been resolved. But it is still not working. Its been more than 8 hours.
Your DNS is propagating correctly. You can check it at https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=a%3akitika.dev&run=toolpage
Are you serving a valid https version of your site currently?
Every .dev domain is on the HSTS preload list, which makes HTTPS required on all connections when the website is accessed on a modern browser that follows this list (Chrome, Firefox etc.)
I have made sure that all connections are running on HTTPS and it is now working.
Posting a top-level final answer to this:
Using a service such as mxtoolbox, you can verify that the DNS had propagated correctly, so that is not the issue: https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=a%3akitika.dev&run=toolpage
Using curl, you can fetch the contents of the page correctly, which indicates the content is being served.
However, as stated on Google’s page for the .dev domain, every .dev domain is on the HSTS preload list, which makes HTTPS required on all connections when the website is accessed on a modern browser that follows this list (Chrome, Firefox etc.)
The issue here was that the website was not configured to serve content on HTTPS correctly, which was resulting in a request for the webpage timing-out in most browsers.
Hopefully, this can help others in the future!