New droplet "this site can't be reached"

Thank you so much Bobby for responding. I tried your steps, and the apache was running since July 30th and the IP was correct.

I went back to the guide and realized I must have skipped the beginning step with the firewall to allow ‘Apache’ via the command (But I did everything else, 'Doh!):

# sudo ufw allow 'Apache'

I would like to ask 1 more question about the SSH keys however - as I stated before, I can only SSH via GitBash using the secondary user I created (i.e. ‘apizano’, per following the guide). And I can only do this on my Windows 10 local PC via GitBash; I initially was SSH’ing into root via my VirtualBox Virtual Machine that has Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on it.

Is there a way to be able to SSH again into my Droplet with the VirtualMachine on root? Do I need to create an SSH on the terminal on that Virtual machine? or are you allowed only 1 SSH for your droplet? I prefer to use Nano and the terminal on my Linux Virtual Machine, but the guide said to create the SSH key on your local machine (my windows 10 PC, so that’s what I did)

Thanks again for your help thus far.

Hello,

As far as I can see your nameservers are setup correctly. Have you tried accessing your droplet’s IP via your browser directly?

Besides that I think this is caused by one of the following things:

• Either your domain name is not pointing to the correct droplet IP
• Or your Apache service is not running

So to troubleshoot that you can follow these steps here:

• First go to your DigitalOcean control panel and under droplets check if the IP of your droplet is: 159.89.85.133
• If not, then copy the new IP and follow the steps here on how to change your DNS records: https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/dns/how-to/add-domains/
• Note: rather than adding a new A record you need to change the current one to match the correct IP of your droplet

If this is not the case and your A record is pointing to the correct IP try the following:

• SSH to your droplet as you did earlier
• Check if Apache is running:

systemctl status apache2

• If Apache is not running try to start it:

systemctl start apache2

• Wait a few seconds and then check the status again:

systemctl status apache2

• If Apache starts as normal then try accessing your site again
• If Apache does not start run a config test:

apachectl -t

• You would get a list of the problems that you need to fix in case that there are any errors in your config

If you get any errors and you are not sure how to proceed, you could share them here and I’ll try to advice further.

Regards, Bobby