Hi, I need help with my NGNIX installation on a DigitalOcean VPC. I can access the NGNIX welcome pages with curl, but not via browser from my laptop. I didn’t have a firewall config at DigitalOcean and UFW is configured like the tutorial. Please help.
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Hi there,
What is the exact error that you get when you try to access your IP address via your browser?
Sometimes browsers like Chrome, would automatically redirect to HTTPS, so if you don’t have an SSL installed, you will just get a connection refused in your browser.
Make sure that you visit your IP address via HTTP directly instead.
If this is indeed the case, you can also consider installing a free SSL certificate using Let’s Encrypt so that your site will also be accessible via HTTPS as well as HTTP:
Let me know how it goes!
- Bobby
Heya,
Can you provide more info on the matter, when you open your website what error do you exactly get?
Additionally, the curl, what code does it return
Heya, @growcommunitychurch
Even if you don’t have a firewall explicitly configured for your droplet, DigitalOcean’s Cloud Firewall might have default settings that restrict access. You can check and adjust this in your DigitalOcean dashboard:
- Go to Networking > Firewalls in your DigitalOcean dashboard.
- If you see any firewall rules applied to your droplet, ensure they allow inbound traffic on TCP port 80.
Regards
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