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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 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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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 would like to upgrade my 18.04.5 Ubuntu to 20,04.
Of course, before doing it, I've updated all installed packages :
sudo apt update && sudo apt -y full-upgrade && sudo apt autoremove
But even after this...
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Hi @BlackBelt35,
I've had cases where a third-party repositories with a broken-dependency, which showed up via sudo apt list --upgradable - the package in question did require another package, which was unavailable du...
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BlackBelt35
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
PHP
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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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Hi. I have a working ruby 2.7.2 app that is a simple udp server on my local development machine which uses the ruby UDPSocket library. I have created a ubuntu 18.04 droplet and created a cloud firewall with a custom i...
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My bad. This was working with the original socket.bind call using 0.0.0.0
I guess that I expected netstat to report LISTEN for this port as my app was indeed listening.
Thanks for looking
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megazoic
Ubuntu 18.04
Networking
Deployment
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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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I have a droplet with 80GB of space, however it reports that it has used 75GB.
/dev/vda1 78G **75G** 2.8G 97% /
When I use the command du -h --max-depth=1 / I get the following in reply:
```
274M /lib
...
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Hello,
In some cases, when deleting a file in Linux, it doesn't get actually deleted. This could happen when a process is holding the file open, preventing it from being deleted.
The solution would be to either resta...
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jfernandezAxolotl
Ubuntu 18.04
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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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I followed this tutorial on how to set up phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 18.04:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-secure-phpmyadmin-on-ubuntu-18-04
In step 2 I'm trying to log in to mysql using...
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Hi there @maxRay,
It looks like that the MySQL password that you are trying to use is not correct. In case that you've lost the MySQL root password I could suggest following the steps from this tutorial here on how to...
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maxRay
MySQL
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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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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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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When I try to login my PHPMyAdmin, I get the following error messages:
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2002 - No such file or directory — The server is not responding (or the local server's socket is not correctly configured).
mysqlirealc...
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Hello,
I would recommend changeinglocalhost to 127.0.0.1 in your config.inc.php PHPmyAdmin file.
It should look something like this after the change:
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = '127.0.0.1';
That way when using 12...
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bepari662
MySQL
PHP
Apache
Ubuntu 18.04
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Hello DO team, I can not access my droplet either by pinging to my public ip or go to your website and login (I got stuck with a blank page "https://cloud.digitalocean.com/projects"). Please help.
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Hello,
I've just checked the DigitalOcean status page and there are no incidents reported for SG1. You can find the status page here:
https://status.digitalocean.com/
Regarding the white screen, I would recommend disa...
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rreaksmey
DigitalOcean Droplets
Ubuntu 18.04
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I have a single droplet running my application, and hosting a postfix mail server for sending notifications, etc. However, mail is not working.
When I run a cmd-line test mail to a gmail account, I get a rejected resp...
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Hello,
It sounds like that your PTR record might be the problem
I could suggest following the steps from this answer here by @alexdo on how to setup a PTR record:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-t...
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blgtechnologylimited
DNS
Ubuntu 18.04
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Hi,
I have 3 Droplets all with ubuntu 18.04, Php 7.2.24, phpmyadmin ver. 4.6.6. Until yesterday phpmyadmin worked fine, but now it gives me HTTP Error 500. Otherwise there is nothing wrong with the servers - (not th...
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SOLVED!!
After many hours i finally found what was wrong.
In /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php last line there was a ";" missing
$cfg['TempDir'] = '/usr/share/phpmyadmin/tmp'; <-- ;
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kenboye
MySQL
Ubuntu 18.04
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I followed this DigitalOcean guide on how to setup Nginx (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-nginx-on-ubuntu-20-04)on an Ubuntu 18.04 droplet. I set up my domain's nameservers to point to ...
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Ok so I looked at this guide (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-nginx-server-blocks-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-14-04-lts) and found this:
In this new file, we’re going to have to look at the...
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faizanjamilwork
Nginx
Let's Encrypt
Ubuntu 18.04