How to setup a website

Posted on January 25, 2022

So my question is literally how to setup a website with a droplet? I’ve spent this whole day trying to figure it out and I can’t, I’m on Windows 10 and have FileZilla, I connected to the droplet with root and password, what directory I need to upload my index.html in order for it to be accessible when user requests the file? mydomain.com/index.html I bought the $5 droplet thing Oh yeah lol, my website isn’t even accessible, it’s epicdevsoft.xyz and I put all three nameservers correctly and the website isn’t accessible still

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Bobby

January 25, 2022

Hi there,

What you would need to do is to install a webserver like Nginx or Apache.

You could follow the steps on how to do that here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-nginx-on-ubuntu-20-04

After that, once the web server has been installed on your Droplet, you have to upload your index.html file to the /var/www/html directory.

Regarding your domain name, you need to do the following:

Add the domain name to your DigitalOcean account:

https://cloud.digitalocean.com/networking/domains/

After that you need to create an A record for your domain name to point to your Droplet’s IP address. It is a good practice to also add a CNAME record for your www version to point to your main domain.

Keep in mind that once you make that DNS change it could take up to 24/48 hours for the DNS cache to clear over the Globe before you could see the new changes. You can use a tool like this one to keep an eye do the DNS:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tools/dns

Alternatively, if you are only having a static website with a single index.html file, what you could do is to use the DigitalOcean App platform as show in this video here: