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Hi all,
Followed this (https://lengstorf.com/code/deploy-nodejs-ssl-digitalocean/) tutorial to get Let's Encrypt working on my Nest.js/Node server.
Everything works - running sudo nginx -t returns:
nginx: the configu...
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Hello,
You can only have 1 service listening on 1 port. So as you have Nginx listening on port 80 at the moment, you can not have your Node on the same port.
Also as you currently have your Nginx set to work as a reve...
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hbendixlewis
Nginx
API
Let's Encrypt
DigitalOcean
Ubuntu 18.04
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Overview
I have a setup that looks like this:
* Nginx Reverse Proxy with a Floating IP
* Reverse Proxy is configured to forward requests from users to a 3rd party SaaS application, BigCommerce which then handles the r...
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Hi @cvanorman
I think that what you have in place is correct in terms of the 4 headers that you've configured already.
What is the output of the Nginx access logs? Are you seeing the correct IP there?
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cvanorman
Nginx
Ubuntu 18.04
Networking
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I have set up a rake task that I want to run once an hour using a cron expression. I got it working on my local dev environment, but I can't get it to work on my production environment hosted here.
I have the followin...
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HI! Let me see if I can help.
The first thing that comes to mind is that you do need to set the environment and use bundle. Be sure you're in the root of your rails app, and that you're using the user your app runs as...
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donkerbc
Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQL
Ruby
Ubuntu 18.04
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my nginx file looks like:
```
location = /favicon.ico { accesslog off; lognot_found off; }
location /static/ {
alias /home/me/projectdir/static/;
}
location /media/ {
alias /home/me/projectdir/media/;
}
locati...
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Hi there @elprincipe,
Do you see any errors in your Nginx error log? You can check that with the following command:
command,bash
sudo tail -100 /var/log/nginx/error.log
It is quite possible that Nginx does not have t...
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elprincipe
Nginx
Python
PostgreSQL
Django
Python Frameworks
Ubuntu 18.04
Databases
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I'm trying to install mysql but I cannot start the service and cannot locate mysqld.sock
I am following the how to here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-sta...
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Hi there @dezshredder,
To me it looks like that your MySQL service is stuck in a crash loop as the status output that you've shared indicates that the status is: "Server startup in progress" and the uptime is 15 secon...
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dezshredder
Ubuntu
MySQL
Ubuntu 18.04
Databases
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I was following this tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-with-lamp-on-ubuntu-18-04 on my Ubuntu 18.04 droplet and I followed everything to the letter but when I go to ht...
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Hi @liberdamj,
Usually these tutorials are directed in cases you want to use your domain rather than your IP address. You'll need to make change to your file /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
Open the file ...
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liberdamj
Ubuntu 18.04
WordPress
LAMP Stack
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I am trying to play with Ansible a little bit and I've created a test playbook but it is failing for some reason and I can't figure out why. I've tested the connectivity between my control node and the worker node but...
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Hello,
The playbook looks good, there's only a slight indentation error, Yaml is very strict about the indentations and the spacing.
You need to make sure that you have two spaces before the - name part of your playb...
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bitmap
Ansible
Ubuntu 18.04
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I've created a droplet and firewall config (using terraform) from the docker-18-04 and docker-20-04 images and I am unable to perform any DNS resolution from within these hosts. I've opened 53/tcp and 53/udp outgoing ...
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It's actually a problem with all outgoing traffic, I've rewritten the question: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/droplets-created-with-terraform-have-no-outgoing-network-access
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zenhob
DNS
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Terraform
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I recently got asked how we can disable old TLS versions on a server. The user was applying for a PCI compliance and wanted to have only TLS 1.2 running on their machine in order to pass the scan of the PCI vendor.
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Here is a little step by step guide on how to set this on a CentOS server.
<^>Before you start, please keep in mind that you can always run into some issues and it's really important to make a working copy of your con...
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alexdo
Ubuntu 18.04
CentOS
Apache
Nginx
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Hey!
All I get is
"Booting from Hard Disk..."
"error: symbol 'grub_calloc' not found"
"Entering resuce mode..."
and then
grub rescue>
I've tried everything, including booting from recovery and tried to reinstall grub ...
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Hi,
First things first, if the environment configuration of your droplet is difficult to replicate, I recommend you to wait for a response from DO support team, and to not perform any action unless they instruct you t...
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kimmymonassar
Ubuntu
Configuration Management
Ubuntu 18.04
System Tools
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1 day past and I still have the same problem, I resized my droplet and when I'm trying to access to my ssh or ping into my IPs I can't find my server, it seems like it's stopped and disconnected. The console work very...
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Hey, @anassbenhima,
You say you receive 100% packet loss when you try to ping your droplet. I am just assuming here but this may be related to the global outage that happened a couple of days ago - https://www.techrad...
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anassbenhima
Networking
Ubuntu 18.04
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I have two servers, one is my control node and one is the worker. I've installed Ansible on the control node with the following command:
apt update -y && apt install ansible -y
And it seems to be working fine. I als...
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Hello,
I've seen this problem before. I think that by default python 2 is not installed on Ubuntu 18.04 . So a quick fix here is to just add the path to python 3 in your inventory file.
It would look something like th...
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bitmap
Ansible
Development
Ubuntu 18.04
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What You'll Need
A Droplet running Ubuntu 16.x or 18.x
SSH or Console Access (https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/resources/console/#log-in-with-the-console) to your Droplet
Why Reset The Firewall?
If you find ...
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If you'd prefer to use a one-liner that you can copy and paste to perform the same actions noted in the guide above, please feel free to use:
sudo ufw --force disable \
&& sudo ufw --force reset \
&& sudo ufw default...
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jtittle
Firewall
Ubuntu
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 20.04
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Hello,
I am trying to permanently change the DNS nameserver being using on my droplet.
I following this article:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-do-i-switch-my-dns-resolvers-away-from-google
But t...
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Hello,
With the older Ubuntu distributions, you could do that with the /etc/resolv.conf however, with Ubuntu 18.04 you should make the change in the netplan configs at /etc/netplan/*.yaml files.
The file would look so...
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Aerience
Ubuntu 18.04
DNS
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Hi,
I installed the Docker Droplet (https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/docker) of DO and loaded a modest docker-compose service.
After a week of working ok and uninterrupted for 8 days.
Suddenly cpu fired up ...
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Just for the record:
finally I the rebuild the project with the new swap configuration and everything it is going smoothing and with a 0.65% of CPU.
I learned that when the project runs low in memory, the operatives...
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willypregliasco
Docker
Ubuntu 18.04
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Hi, my case is that after having set up a new Droplet with an Ubuntu 18.04 server and have followed the DO tutorials to:
1. Install Nginx
2. Secure Nginx with Let's Encrypt
3. Install Jenkins
4. Configure Jenkins with...
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OK just add an update that some days after my latest post, I realized that the main and only reason the server was going down was a lack of resources in the droplet.
So I was using a droplet with 1GB of RAM, 25GB HD, ...
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jlbb
Nginx
Docker
Ubuntu 18.04
CI/CD
Node.js
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I just suffered a ~1 hour server outage on a routine redeploy due the the image slug lamp-18-04 actually deploying Ubuntu 20.04. You can see in the screenshot (https://imgur.com/a/afSNX22) that the Digital Ocean API r...
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The lamp-18-04 image needed to be rebuilt. It is live now.
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razorx
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 20.04
LAMP Stack
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Hello world!
I've created a Ubuntu NodeJS 8.10.0 on 18.04 droplet.
I've deployed a Node.js app, tested on my computer.
I can reach my app from inside the Droplet.
curl http://localhost:3000
I can't reach my app from ...
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Greetings!
I would bet that your application is listening on 127.0.0.1, as opposed to the public interface. If you run netstat -tulpn you should see the applications listening, and it might look something like this:
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juliojordan
Node.js
Ubuntu 18.04
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I have a droplet setup using the LAMP by DigitalOcean OS Ubuntu 18.04 framework (which includes Postfix), and in testing out the php mail() function, I find that sending or cc'ing email to a Gmail address works perfec...
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OK, so I configured Postfix to use my Gmail account as my SMTP server and all is good now. Still not sure why the email wasn't showing up in my inboxes before, but they are now! Hope this helps someone...
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g3logic
Ubuntu 18.04
PHP
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One day I needed to restore the server due to a problem that occurred with the wordpress that I had installed that was disabled and needed a quick solution. I gave him the option to restore from the droplet control pa...
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Assuming you’re on Ubuntu,
systemctl enable apache2 mysql
Link for references.
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-start-service-on-boot-on-ubuntu-20-04
Ps: MySQL is dead, I highly recommend using mariadb instead. All MyS...
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stiven8as
Ubuntu 18.04
PHP
WordPress
Backups