Assistance with Discourse setup

Installation
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Hey guys!

So, I’ve created quite a few websites before using Digital Ocean and PHPBB software, and this is supposedly super easy so I feel dumb, but I’m having trouble.

I went through the steps here twice (after deleting the first, failed droplet and creating a new one): https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md

I install Discourse to talk.ourani.world
I made sure my nameservers were correct (godaddy has my digitalocean’s ns)
But I’m still only getting GoDaddy’s parked webpage instead of setup for the forum?

I also noticed that I have no www in my ftp, and that the files in there are a bit weird compared to others I’ve had.

Does anyone have any idea why this would be?

Thank you!

EDIT:
I do want to note that putty was not accepting this line, so I had to install docker when it prompted after detecting it didn’t exist: wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh

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This sounds to me like a DNS problem, not a Discourse problem.

Your nameservers are definitely Digital Ocean:

$ host -t NS ourani.world
ourani.world name server ns2.digitalocean.com.
ourani.world name server ns3.digitalocean.com.
ourani.world name server ns1.digitalocean.com.

But when I check the DNS for talk.ourani.world I’m not seeing any A records, which would need to exists:

$ dig talk.ourani.world @ns2.digitalocean.com.

; <<>> DiG 9.11.3-1ubuntu1.5-Ubuntu <<>> talk.ourani.world @ns2.digitalocean.com.
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 42567
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;talk.ourani.world.		IN	A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
ourani.world.		1800	IN	SOA	ns1.digitalocean.com. hostmaster.ourani.world. 1550853987 10800 3600 604800 1800

;; Query time: 24 msec
;; SERVER: 173.245.59.41#53(173.245.59.41)
;; WHEN: Fri Feb 22 15:27:35 EST 2019
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 113

You’ll need to double check your DNS config at Digital Ocean, and reach out to their support team if you need more DNS specific help.

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Thanks. I just added “talk” and “@” to my DNS thingy type A pointing to the droplet, so maybe that’ll do something, but then again I don’t really understand DNS stuff.

Have a big fat feeling I’m doing it wrong, so I’ll contact DO, but I thank you for your help!!

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Just checked. Looks like you’re good.

http://talk.ourani.world/

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Just spins and then either parks or says “The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.” for me - working for you?

Cleared browser cache/cookies and still nothin’.

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I’m guessing that because you were loading the URL, your DNS cache needs flushed.

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I get this - perhaps because someone else opened it first? Thanks a ton (forgot about DNS cache) (: Noobs are annoying I know!

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Edit - getting above “The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.” on and off still

Edit again - working on mobile. Thank you so much!

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You should run ./discoure-setup again and provide an email address for let’s encrypt so you’ll have https.

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Does this have to be another e-mail address specifically for encryption? I skipped this because I wasn’t sure what it was.

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It’s an address where you will receive an email should your certificate be about to expire.

Can you tell me what words would have made you think “YES! I really want this!”?

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I was going to look it up afterwards and see exactly what it was, then setup again to include it. I think if I’d had known it had something to do with HTTPS I would have jumped on it a bit quicker.

Anyway, I redid my droplet again because of e-mail troubles (would rather have clean slate as to not leave behind any issues) and now my website is something about… mixwav?

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If you made a new droplet and discarded the old, someone else may now be using the old IP address for their purposes on their new droplet.

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Haha that’s weird. I changed the DNS stuff so I would think this wouldn’t happen. Also, nice forehead tat. :stuck_out_tongue:

Redid setup with the encryption e-mail - appreciate the helpfulness of this community!

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All DNS lookups are cached, so only after the cache expires will you see any changes.

Should you want to do this again, I believe you can “redeploy” a droplet to keep the IP but start fresh.

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Fantastic, thanks a ton!! I remember seeing that and will use it next time.

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Another way to solve the DNS issue is to use a “floating ip”, which you can then attach to which ever droplet you want. It can then add a level of confusion because then the IP that your droplet has is not the IP that you point the DNS to.

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