Temporary test domain name or way to achieve this

Out of interest what operating system are you using locally on your own computer?

If you’re using Windows you can edit the file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts and add a line like this:

2.2.2.2 testdomain.com

Replace 2.2.2.2 with the IP address of your droplet.

testdomain.com will then map to your droplet from your local work station, bypassing any external DNS lookup.

Setup a new virtual host under sites-enabled.conf for testdomain.com and away you go.

A better option might be to simply create a symbolic link.

A symbolic link is part of your file system (nothing to do with Apache or nginx).

It creates a “virtual” directory which maps to a directory elsewhere in the file system.

You would run this via the command line (make sure the newsite folder doesn’t already exist):

ln -s /var/www/newsite.com /var/www/caribbean-diving.com/newsite

This creates a “vitual” link under /var/www/caribbean-diving.com/newsite which maps to /var/www/newsite.com

Anyone visiting http://caribbean-diving.com/newsite will see the contents of /var/www/newsite.com

In my case what seems to have been lacking is a default server and now it seems to be working and what @DigitalCarrot would have got had I posted my server block code…many thanks to you @DigitalCarrot

SO in my default site block I now have this

server {
        listen 80 default_server;
        listen [::]:80 default_server;

Vs

server {
        listen 80;
        listen [::]:80;

Now when I use the IP address remotely I can access what this default site points to…