Hello,

You would need to make sure that you have a web server like Apache or Nginx installed.

For example if you decide to go with Apache, you could install it with the following command:

sudo apt install apache2

Then once Apache has been installed make sure that it is enabled so that if your Droplet gets rebooted Apache would start on boot:

systemctl enable apache2

Also make sure that Apache is started:

systemctl start apache2

Once you have Apache up and running, then you could go ahead and upload your website to the /var/www/html folder as you mentioned.

Another thing that you need to keep in mind is that your domain name’s A record needs to be pointing to your Droplet’s IP address. And also after each DNS change, it might take up to 48 hours for the DNS cache to clear over the Globe before you could see the changes.

Let me know if anything is unclear.

Regards,
Bobby

Thanks so much for your detailed answer @bobbyiliev .

I finally figured it out and solved it.

For future reference:

First, and after creating the droplet, I configured the server:

Initial Server Setup with Ubuntu 18.04
Url: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-18-04

Then, I installed Nginx instead of apace, following this guide:

How To Install Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04
Url: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-nginx-on-ubuntu-18-04

Only after that, I followed the steps detailed in this post:

how can i simply start a HTML page and start my own page and i want to know how to edit it later
Url: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-can-i-simply-start-a-html-page-and-start-my-own-page-and-i-want-to-know-how-to-edit-it-later