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Site fails to connect after apache2 reboot

Posted on June 19, 2019

After rebooting Apache2 for any reason (including powering down and on), my site becomes inaccessible via the droplet’s IP address, with apache2 showing “The requested URL / was not found on this server”. I don’t currently have a domain set up, but I’m able to access the droplet via the console and ftp.



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