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Wordpress one click install is not working

Posted February 12, 2020 1.3k views
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After I create a droplet with the WordPress one-click install, I can not access the WordPress setup. The IP address for the droplet returns a continuously loading page and eventually returns ERRCONNECTIONTIMED_OUT.

What to do about this?

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emilmoe May 17, 2020

Just tried 2 times – doesn’t work. The domain is up for a few minutes and then unreachable!

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bobbyiliev February 12, 2020

Hello,

I believe that you need to first SSH to the Droplet and complete the Wordpress setup process through there. This would start your Apache web server and your Wordpress website will be available after that via your browser.

Let me know if you have any questions!
Regards,
Bobby

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  • hsvejsan88 February 13, 2020

    Hi Bobby. Yes I have run the whole setup process from within the console every time I’ve tried it. I’ve followed tutorial videos on YouTube and they seem to have no problem just punching in the IP of the droplet and accessing WordPress as soon as they change the UNIX password. But this is not the case for me.

    I have just tried it again with the same result.

    Is it safe to share the IP of the droplet here?

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    • bobbyiliev February 13, 2020

      Hello,

      It sounds like that this is a firewall issue. To narrow it down, can you do the following:

      • SSH to your Droplet and check if Apache is listening correctly on port 80:
      sudo netstat -plant | grep 80
      • Try making a curl request from the Droplet itself to see if it can get to port 80:
      curl droplet_ip_address
      • Check the UFW status:
      sudo ufw status
      • Another thing that you could try doing is double-checking that your Droplet is not behind a DigitalOcean firewall

      Regards,
      Bobby

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alexdo February 12, 2020

Hello, @hsvejsan88

Could you please let me know if the installation process went completely fine without any issues, e.g no error message were loaded and etc? Keep in mind that the installation process needs to be completed via ssh so you need to access your droplet.

Have you tried checking if the virtual host has been created after the installation completed?

You can double check this tutorial in order to see how the virtual host setup should be: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-18-04

Also have you made some firewall related changes on the droplet?

Let me know how it goes.

Regards,
Alex

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  • hsvejsan88 February 13, 2020

    Hi Alex. As I mentioned in my reply to Bobby above I have finished the installation every time via ssh. It has returned “Completing the installation of WordPress. Installed successfully” every time. No apparent error messages as far as I have noticed.

    I do have a firewall setup for my other droplet and I double-checked now and the only droplet that is listed under that firewall is my centos droplet and not this one.

    I’m unsure as to how exactly verify that apache was setup correctly. But I do have the /var/www/html folder full of WordPress files.

    /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
    I also have these files.

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