By stanjane
I created my first droplet, added ssh root address to terminal, and changed my password successfully. Should my IP address be working?
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When I try to connect I get a ‘this webpage is unavailable’. Am I missing something?
When setting up Apache, with these commands -
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install apache2
Do you know if I should be logged in as a local, root, or non-root user?
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