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SSL installation on LEMP 16.04 and Wordpress

I have followed the following tutorial on securing NGINX on Ubuntu 16.04.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-nginx-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-16-04

Once I finished installing Let’s Encrypt SSL and when I try to connect to my wordpress website it shows the digital ocean “Please log into your droplet via SSH to configure your LEMP installation”. How do I remove this and get to my wordpress website? I read that deleting the index.html should work but when I delete it I then get a 403 Forbidden Access

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newserverguy • February 27, 2017
2017/02/26 10:48:05 [notice] 2477#2477: signal process started
2017/02/26 20:54:59 [emerg] 6887#6887: unexpected end of file, expecting "}" in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:110
2017/02/26 20:59:10 [crit] 6932#6932: *148 SSL_do_handshake() failed (SSL: error:14094085:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:ccs received early) while SSL handshaking, client: 64.41.200.107, server: 0.0.0.0:443
2017/02/26 20:59:10 [crit] 6932#6932: *149 SSL_do_handshake() failed (SSL: error:14094085:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:ccs received early) while SSL handshaking, client: 64.41.200.107, server: 0.0.0.0:443
2017/02/26 21:05:16 [error] 6932#6932: *204 directory index of "/var/www/html/" is forbidden, client: 96.xx.xx.xx, server: _, request: "GET / HTTP/2.0", host: "[redacted]"
2017/02/26 21:05:56 [error] 6932#6932: *204 directory index of "/var/www/html/" is forbidden, client: 96.xx.xx.xx, server: _, request: "GET / HTTP/2.0", host: "[redacted]"
2017/02/26 21:05:57 [error] 6932#6932: *204 directory index of "/var/www/html/" is forbidden, client: 96.xx.xx.xx, server: _, request: "GET / HTTP/2.0", host: "[redacted]"
2017/02/26 21:05:58 [error] 6932#6932: *204 directory index of "/var/www/html/" is forbidden, client: 96.xx.xx.xx, server: _, request: "GET / HTTP/2.0", host: "[redacted]"
2017/02/26 21:08:30 [notice] 7001#7001: signal process started
2017/02/26 21:13:26 [notice] 7081#7081: signal process started

I checked the default server configuration file and everything checks out so not to sure why its giving me that error. Ran the sudo nginx -t code and syntax is okay and test is successful. Hopefully this can get resolved.

Jonathan Tittle • February 26, 2017

@greensociety

To find out what errors are being logged, we can run the command below. It’ll output the last 20 lines of the NGINX error log which should give us an idea of what’s going on.

tail -20 /var/log/nginx/error.log

If you can post that output to a code block, we can troubleshoot from there.

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