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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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How do I scale and grow my infrastructure for my business?
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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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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 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?
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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:
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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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Ubuntu 16.04
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I'm trying to follow the The Upstart Event System (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/the-upstart-event-system-what-it-is-and-how-to-use-it) article, but when I start my service manually, I get:
Failed t...
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As of 16.04 upstart scripts are no longer supported by default on Ubuntu. 16.04 uses systemd (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemdForUpstartUsers).
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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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