I created a droplet using the default Wordpress on Ubuntu 12.10.
When the droplet was created I was given an ip address for the droplet.
I then went into godaddy and assigned the digitalocean dns servers to my domain name and they now resolve properly.
The problem: For some reason when I type in my domain name it takes me to my server ‘It works’ page instead of my WordPress install.
When I type in my digital ocean ip address I am taken to the WordPress install just fine.
So what do I change and where, to make it so that my domain name will resolve over to my WordPress install instead of the ‘It Works’ Ubuntu page?
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It could be a DNS propagation issue, as DNS usually takes a few hours to propagate across the world.
well I stopped the server and restarted it and sure enough, now it works. Go figure…
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