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Website down after resetting root password

Posted on November 1, 2018

Website is down after resetting droplet root password. I don’t remember the sudo username either… What can I do?



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Hello, @infoe7395aafd97fa222df76f7

As already mentioned you need to make sure that your web server (Apache, Nginx and etc) is running. You can always check the error logs to see what went wrong. In this way you can know where to look at in order to resolve the issue.

Regards, Alex

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