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Eventually connections to our main IP became stable again. We had to unassign and reassign the floating IP to get it working again....
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Our droplet is currently up, but connections are failing. We have the main droplet IP address, and a floating IP address. The main droplet IP address is responding intermittently, and our floating IP address is not ...
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DigitalCarrot
DigitalOcean
Networking
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As a long term RHEL / Centos user, old software versions became the bane of my life (albeit with backported security fixes).
A while back I switched to Ubuntu and it was like a breath of fresh air.
The time has come t...
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Debian
Debian 10
Ubuntu
Ubuntu 20.04
FreeBSD
PHP
WordPress
Laravel
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Hi there,
I have installed Postfix on a droplet, and configured it to work on ports 25 and 587.
I'm unable to make a connection remotely.
If I do the following from the droplet itself:
```
telnet localhost 587
```
I g...
Accepted Answer:
Hello,
This sounds like that you might have a firewall on your Droplet. If this is the case you need to open port 587 for incoming and outgoing TCP connections, for example if you are using Ubuntu and if you have UFW ...
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DigitalCarrot
Networking
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Silly question, but you’ve not configured a firewall for the droplet and then your local IP address has changed?
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DigitalCarrot
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This is probably because you don’t have sendmail or a mailserver setup on your droplet.
What we’re doing is relaying mail via sm…
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DigitalCarrot
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I have used both (and am currently using both).
I much prefer Ubuntu, which I’ve been using for less than 6 months. I’ve been u…
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DigitalCarrot
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I had memory issues with my droplet hosting just a couple of WordPress sites with very low traffic.
However, I added the followi…
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DigitalCarrot
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In many ways I would argue it’s better bang for your buck performance wise, because all the shared hosting I’ve ever used has been …
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DigitalCarrot
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Over what period of time? If that’s in a day then it seems unusual (unless you have very busy sites). If it’s in a month then it’…
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DigitalCarrot
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A better option might be to simply create a symbolic link.
A symbolic link is part of your file system (nothing to do with Apach…
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DigitalCarrot
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Today our website displayed a "Database connection error"
Via the command line I tried to connect to MariaDB and it failed:
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysql...
Accepted Answer:
Hi @DigitalCarrot
Yes, total system ran out of RAM, so resize the droplet up. And it also looks like your database storage is actually 140MB, but the buffer pool size is the default 128MB, which means it's swapping c...
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DigitalCarrot
MariaDB
MySQL
Ubuntu 16.04
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Out of interest what operating system are you using locally on your own computer?
If you’re using Windows you can edit the file …
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DigitalCarrot
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Why not navigate to your support page and view the ticket they’ve created? They must have a reason for locking the Droplet.
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DigitalCarrot
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Set the DNS for both of your domains to point to your droplet.
Then configure two virtual hosts as follows:
<VirtualHost...
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DigitalCarrot
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Published Question
With MariaDB by default the root user has the plugin unix_socket enabled:
```
SELECT Plugin FROM user WHERE User = "root";
+-------------+
| Plugin |
+-------------+
| unix_socket |
+-------------+
```
From the d...
Accepted Answer:
Hi @DigitalCarrot
Why don't you create two root users? As long as the Host+User is unique, then it's allowed.
But from a security point, I would would say /root/.my.cnf is a clear winner compared to phpMyAdmin.
If yo...
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DigitalCarrot
MariaDB
Ubuntu 16.04