By pangolino91
Hello, I just completed the 1-click installation for Wordpress for my Droplet. This droplet is linked to a Hostgator domain, which had already a static website nested on. After I correctly changed the servers to my domain, run the Wordpress installation and did everything in order to start a fresh wordpress website on this domain, following the URL I still see my old website, which was not cancelled but it is still there. How to change it? (yes, I already deleted the cache ;) and yes, i already deleted the .htaccess file). If i enter not through the url, but using the ip generated once I linked the domain with Digital Ocean, instead, it says that “The requested URL / was not found on this server.”
Finally, when I log into my droplet console I can navigate between folders like /var/www etc but I cannot see them in the URL… Why is this happening? How can I launch my wordpress website? Should I cancel the old files from the file manager of Hostgator? Thanks in advance everybody, Enrico.
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Hey friend,
Make sure you’ve changed your DNS over to point to our server. If you have, there are at least two reasons why you may be the last person to witness your site switch over. The first is browser cache, and the second is DNS cache. Both of these have TTL values, times that must be reached before the caches expire and new information is requested by your computer/router/ISP. The person who most recently requested new records before the change is the one who has to wait the longest to see the change, in what is commonly referred to as “DNS propagation.”
Jarland
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