the site in question is: gengoka.com
I set up a marketplace Wordpress installation with let’s encrypt.
If I directly type in gengoka.com into my browser, it doesn’t connect and I get a timeout error.
If I type **https://**gengoka.com into my browser there are no issues.
Also, if I go to the non secure **http://**gengoka.com version of the site, it also gives me the timeout error.
I tried using the Really Simple SSL plugin in Wordpress for a 301 redirect, but that hasn’t helped. I also tried a redirect in the apache conf file for sites enabled, and that didn’t work either (though not 100% if I did it correctly).
What should I try next?
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Hey, @raimanau,
Could you post the content of your Apache/Nginx config:
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/anything-in-here OR /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/anything-in-here
Also, could you tell me how did you set-up your domain? Did you change the nameservers to match DigitalOcean ones? You should have the following records:
- A record of gengoka.com pointing to droplet-ip
- CNAME record of www.gengoka.com pointing to gengoka.com
Thanks, Dennis
Had same issue, spent lot of time looking for fix, installed plugins, etc.
Turned out official guide suggested optionally using ufw delete allow 80/tcp which was the cause of issue.
So i just had to ufw allow 80/tcp to make http version of my domain work again, which then automatically gets redirected to https, as supposed.
Hey @raimanau,
Hmm, are you sure that your A record is pointing to your current IP? If that is the case, maybe delete and recreate the droplet again? As far as I can see, you haven’t started development yet, so this may be a good chance for us to experiment as much as possible.
Best, Dennis
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FYI for others looking here we ended up with Dennis helping me set up the Wordpress installation for me from scratch on a Debian droplet, so you won’t find a direct answer looking through the comments.