I’m new to Discourse, I have set up a Digital Ocean droplet and used their Discourse marketplace app. The install went fine, I pointed my domain to the IP address (a record) However, when I type in the subdomain I get a 403 error and when I type in the Digital Ocean IP address I get nothing (IP ad…

In my personal opinion, you went wrong by installing discourse via the marketplace. I dislike that thing :blush: Can you rebuild the droplet and follow the official install . It would be easier, than to troubleshoot and fix the broken marketplace one.

It sounds like you have a dns problem or otherwise don’t know the ip address of your droplet.

Currently experiencing this in 2023 as still an issue.

If you do a standard install , it will do some tests to make sure that your DNS is correct. Did you do a one-click or a standard install ? If you did a one-click install, then that test doesn’t get done. What is your hostname? What is the IP address of your droplet? Do they match?

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Stephen (Stephen) January 24, 2023, 3:20pm 6

What is? Could you elaborate?

We don’t offer any support for the digital ocean one click installer here, for that you would need to reach out to them.

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