(Willing to pay) Anyone have a worknig DO droplet that receives POST requests?

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Hello,

Looking for someone who has a working Digital Ocean droplwt that can receive external POST requests. Even better if you have a node.js / express.js app running on it that receives the requests

DO support are not able to make this happen for me (on the few occasionas I get a reply from them). So the alternative is to pay someone who can tell me how they did it.

It’s a shame. This could be a great service. Support don’t seem to be interested in anything other than quick answers that don’t really solve anything. I get it, they are probably judged on numbers answered rather than quality. It all seems to be the fast-food equivalent of hosting. Still, it’s cheap, so if it works, I’ll take it for the time being.

Thanks!

fe56ffe316aa42c6b72bd45209e8c4 · Answer

My droplet runs a .NET webApi and a Blazor wasm app. The API accepts POST requests from the front end. I know your post states js frameworks, but I still might be able to help.

Bobby · Answer

Hey Mike, I noticed your new question, and while it’s great that you’re looking for other perspectives, I want to reiterate a couple of things to clear up some confusion: DigitalOcean Droplets don’t block ports by default. If a port isn’t working, it’s almost always due to one of the following: The app isn’t configured to bind to the correct interface (e.g., 0.0.0.0). A firewall (like UFW or iptables) is blocking the port. There’s a misconfiguration in your server setup (e.g., Nginx or Express.js). The issue isn’t with DigitalOcean’s infrastructure. Droplets are unmanaged servers, so the way you run your applications and containers on the servers depends on you and how you setup and configure the services there like Nginx and Docker. If someone on StackOverflow claimed it’s an issue with DigitalOCean, they likely misunderstood the underlying problem. I personally am running 10+ projects on DigitalOcean and I can confirm that they can all accept POST requests. What you are describing sounds like a server configuration issue rather than your app, can you confirm how exactly did you set up the server? What was the guide that you followed to set up the server? Are you using Docker? If you are using Docker what was the command that you ran? Feel free to give me access to the server and I can get this working for you. Reach out: bobby@bobbyiliev.com. - Bobby

KFSys · Answer

Heya, There isn’t a reason for the PORTS to be blocked. Are you sure anything is listening on that port you are trying to make the request to? Also, make sure you have allowed it in your firewall on the Droplet.

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