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Why is my domain not resolving to my DO droplet?

Question

Posted on August 9, 2018

By OokmaKyi

I am following this tutorial: How To Install Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04 and have followed it to the letter. My domain is linked and resolving to DO via NS.

Dig Output

ookma-kyi.tk.		1799	IN	NS	ns1.digitalocean.com.
ookma-kyi.tk.		1799	IN	NS	ns2.digitalocean.com.
ookma-kyi.tk.		1799	IN	NS	ns3.digitalocean.com.
ookma-kyi.tk.		1799	IN	SOA	ns1.digitalocean.com. hostmaster.ookma-kyi.tk. 1532983840 10800 3600 604800 1800
ookma-kyi.tk.		21599	IN	MX	10 mx.yandex.net.
ookma-kyi.tk.		21599	IN	TXT	"v=spf1 redirect=_spf.yandex.net"

My firewall is setup correctly:

22 LIMIT ANYWHERE
80 ALLOW ANYWHERE
443 ALLOW ANYWHERE
Nginx HTTP ALLOW ANYWHERE
22 (v6) LIMIT ANYWHERE (v6)
80 (v6) ALLOW ANYWHERE (v6)
443 (v6) ALLOW ANYWHERE (v6)
Nginx HTTP (v6) ALLOW ANYWHERE (v6)

Any Nginx is definitely running

nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2018-08-08 19:33:43 UTC; 7 h ago
 Main PID: 2651 (nginx)
    Tasks: 2
   CGroup: /system.slice/nginx.service
           ├─2651 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master_process on;
           └─2652 nginx: worker process

Here is my server block /etc/nginx/sites-available/ookma-kyi.tk:

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

       root /var/www/ookma-kyi.tk;
       index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

       server_name ookma-kyi.tk www.ookma-kyi.tk;

       location / {
              try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
       }
}

Here is the code to my page:

<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to ookma-kyi.tk!</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Success!</h1>
<p>The ookma-kyi.tk server block is working!</p>
</body>
</html>

Any ideas on why accessing my domain from a browser gives me a can’t connect error message in firefox?

Why is my domain not resolving to my DO droplet?

Question

Posted on August 9, 2018

By OokmaKyi

I am following this tutorial: How To Install Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04 and have followed it to the letter. My domain is linked and resolving to DO via NS.

Dig Output

ookma-kyi.tk.		1799	IN	NS	ns1.digitalocean.com.
ookma-kyi.tk.		1799	IN	NS	ns2.digitalocean.com.
ookma-kyi.tk.		1799	IN	NS	ns3.digitalocean.com.
ookma-kyi.tk.		1799	IN	SOA	ns1.digitalocean.com. hostmaster.ookma-kyi.tk. 1532983840 10800 3600 604800 1800
ookma-kyi.tk.		21599	IN	MX	10 mx.yandex.net.
ookma-kyi.tk.		21599	IN	TXT	"v=spf1 redirect=_spf.yandex.net"

My firewall is setup correctly:

22 LIMIT ANYWHERE
80 ALLOW ANYWHERE
443 ALLOW ANYWHERE
Nginx HTTP ALLOW ANYWHERE
22 (v6) LIMIT ANYWHERE (v6)
80 (v6) ALLOW ANYWHERE (v6)
443 (v6) ALLOW ANYWHERE (v6)
Nginx HTTP (v6) ALLOW ANYWHERE (v6)

Any Nginx is definitely running

nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2018-08-08 19:33:43 UTC; 7 h ago
 Main PID: 2651 (nginx)
    Tasks: 2
   CGroup: /system.slice/nginx.service
           ├─2651 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master_process on;
           └─2652 nginx: worker process

Here is my server block /etc/nginx/sites-available/ookma-kyi.tk:

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

       root /var/www/ookma-kyi.tk;
       index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

       server_name ookma-kyi.tk www.ookma-kyi.tk;

       location / {
              try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
       }
}

Here is the code to my page:

<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to ookma-kyi.tk!</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Success!</h1>
<p>The ookma-kyi.tk server block is working!</p>
</body>
</html>

Any ideas on why accessing my domain from a browser gives me a can’t connect error message in firefox?

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