Question
my domain Is stuck to an old IP address of my old droplet instead of new droplet
- Posted on August 11, 2022
- DigitalOcean Droplets
Asked by ismailosunlana
I Moved my domain (aivocalremover.com) to another droplet. (from droplet-161.35.71.36 to droplet-167.99.132.209). I also setup the A records appropriately as shown in the attached image. But the domain still continues to be connected to the old droplet. If i turn off the old droplet, the domain name starts returning error 503 till i turn it back on. Please help me look into this. Thanks
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For others having same issue. Here is what happened.
I forgot to replace the update the ip address in virtualhost file -
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
Hi @alexdo.
Its been 72 hours and the domain name is still pointing to my old droplet.
Hello @ismailosunlana
The DNS might take up to 24 hours in order to fully update due to DNS cache.
However, since you’ve conducted tests with the old droplet being powered off and this leading to a 503 error, there’s clearly a misconfiguration on the new droplet.
Have you examined the server logs to gather more information about the error itself? Would you mind sharing more details on the setup itself?
503 Service Unavailable server error response code indicates that the server is not ready to handle the request. Common causes are a server that is down for maintenance or that is overloaded.
You can check if the web server (Apache/Nginx/Node) is running as well as other services that are related to your site/application.
Regards