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DigitalOcean is excited to continue building out its collection of technical articles. The goal of these articles is to provide well written, comprehensive pieces on a variety of topics related to server administratio...
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When we accept articles for the DigitalOcean community, we look for several characteristics: relevant and interesting topics, clear writing style, and appropriate formatting. The last concern, formatting, is an import...
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This is the first hands-on portion of the book. First, we'll go over the tools we'll be using, how they fit together, and how they can be beneficial to you as you begin to create and manage your infrastructure on Digi...
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Fabian Barajas, Jon Schwenn
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Solutions
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How do I scale and grow my infrastructure for my business?
More importantly, how do I prevent a crisis? How do I know what my decisions will also impact? Am I asking the right questions?
This book will help answer qu...
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Fabian Barajas, Jon Schwenn
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Before we set sail, we want to share a brief infrastructure history lesson. This will help provide context on the needs that cloud infrastructure fills and how to take full advantage of it to get the most value, perfo...
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This is an early release version of the contents of the Navigator's Guide book, an offering from the DigitalOcean Solutions Engineers. The goal of the book is to help business customers plan their infrastructure needs...
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In the introduction, we said that this book would give you the tools and the understanding you need to run a successful infrastructure on DigitalOcean — but what is DigitalOcean, and who are we to tell you what to do?
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I created a droplet and added my SSH key in the creation process. It worked well, I could easily connect to server from my local machine via SSH.
Later I created a new SSH key in my local machine, I uploaded it to the...
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Hello, @mantas393
You've mentioned that you've created an additional ssh key on your machine, but is the previous still present on your PC? The thing is you can define the exact ssh_key you want to use during the ssh...
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mantas393
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I can't get my wordpress install live locally, i'm using wordpress, nginx, mySQL, php 7.1, ubuntu 16.04 and below is my nginx file. I just get a download file instead of the website.
server {
listen 80 defaul...
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Hi @scottastafford5
Are you sure you're using PHP 7.1 and not 7.0 ? The default with Ubuntu 16.04 is 7.0.
Did you mean to have server_name wwww.qa.homebuilder.com homebuilder.com; instead of server_name homebuilder.c...
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Got a tech question that could be solved by a how-to? What tutorial topics are sparking your interest this month?
Keep the suggestions flowing until the end of September. During the first week of October, we'll respon...
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Thank you for posting September's topic requests! Over the next few days we will review and respond to all suggestions.
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I want to Host multiple wordpress websites on my single droplet created with LEMP on Ubuntu 16.04.
I am trying to do this from past 2 days but still no luck.I have seen many Tutorials on DO but they are very old(most ...
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You can find instructions for how to install a multi-site wordpress installation on top of a LEMP stack here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-with-lemp-on-ubuntu-16-04 (https:...
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Wordpress multisite runs great on Digital Ocean's One Click Wordpress install setup.
However problems happen when trying to add Letsencrypt to the installation for each domain the multisite uses. The typical multisite...
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Answer given at the letsencrypt support forums
https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/setting-up-letsencrypt-for-a-single-wordpress-multisite-installation-with-many-domains/46511 (https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/sett...
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In my profile settings "Droplet Limit" shows 1.
Thank you
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Finally, after two days, my ticket was answered:
It looks like there may have been a problem with the PayPal payment, or a problem with our system recognizing that payment which prevented the payment from activating y...
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Hi guys,
So I followed this tutorial, https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu-14-04 on how to setup a site and I followed every single step. I then p...
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Hi @avi24
Is there a special reason why you're following the Ubuntu 14.04 tutorial instead of 16.04?
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu-16-04
W...
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avi24
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The following article got me to the point where I could display text content, but that's where it stopped.
How To Set Up a Node.js Application for Production on Ubuntu 16.04 (https://www.digitalocean.com/communit...
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I just came across this post, thanks for sharing it! By the way the formatting seems fine as well.
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MLR
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I followed a guide "How To Host Parse Server" for Ubuntu 14.04 and completed all steps there but can not figure out why parse is returning nothing. Please help
curl -H "X-Parse-Application-Id: MyAppId" https://mydomai...
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Found what was the problem: did not import _SCHEMA table from previous database.
But now I have a new problem: when I do second query right away after a query server returns: 502 bad gateway. If I wait several seconds...
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andrey502fca004
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