# Assistance with Discourse setup
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/assistance-with-discourse-setup/109857
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [February 22, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assistance-with-discourse-setup/109857 "2019-02-22T20:20:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Jansither](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jansither)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assistance-with-discourse-setup/109857/1 "2019-02-22T20:20:56Z")
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): [discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub](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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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2019, 8:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assistance-with-discourse-setup/109857/2 "2019-02-22T20:28:41Z")
> [@Jansither](#):
>
> 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?
This sounds to me like a DNS problem, not a Discourse problem.
Your nameservers are definitely Digital Ocean:
```plaintext
$ 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:
```plaintext
$ 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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### Author:  [@Jansither](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jansither)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assistance-with-discourse-setup/109857/3 "2019-02-22T20:36:40Z")
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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### Author:  [@joebuhlig](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joebuhlig)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2019, 8:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assistance-with-discourse-setup/109857/4 "2019-02-22T20:48:28Z")
Just checked. Looks like you’re good.
[http://talk.ourani.world/](http://talk.ourani.world/)
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### Author:  [@Jansither](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jansither)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assistance-with-discourse-setup/109857/5 "2019-02-22T20:52:46Z")
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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### Author:  [@joebuhlig](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joebuhlig)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assistance-with-discourse-setup/109857/6 "2019-02-22T20:56:57Z")
I’m guessing that because you were loading the URL, your DNS cache needs flushed.
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### Author:  [@Jansither](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jansither)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2019, 9:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assistance-with-discourse-setup/109857/7 "2019-02-22T21:10:20Z")
I get this - perhaps because someone else opened it first? Thanks a ton (forgot about DNS cache) (: Noobs are annoying I know!
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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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2019, 11:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assistance-with-discourse-setup/109857/8 "2019-02-22T23:10:07Z")
> [@Jansither](#):
>
> talk.ourani.world
You should run `./discoure-setup` again and provide an email address for let’s encrypt so you’ll have https.
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### Author:  [@Jansither](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jansither)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2019, 12:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assistance-with-discourse-setup/109857/9 "2019-02-23T00:42:16Z")
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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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2019, 12:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assistance-with-discourse-setup/109857/10 "2019-02-23T00:44:27Z")
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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### Author:  [@Jansither](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jansither)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2019, 1:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assistance-with-discourse-setup/109857/11 "2019-02-23T01:00:51Z")
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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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assistance-with-discourse-setup/109857/12 "2019-02-23T01:14:23Z")
> [@Jansither](#):
>
> now my website is something about… mixwav?
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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### Author:  [@Jansither](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jansither)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2019, 1:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assistance-with-discourse-setup/109857/13 "2019-02-23T01:16:49Z")
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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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2019, 1:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assistance-with-discourse-setup/109857/14 "2019-02-23T01:19:15Z")
> [@Jansither](#):
>
> I changed the DNS stuff so I would think this wouldn’t happen.
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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### Author:  [@Jansither](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jansither)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2019, 1:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assistance-with-discourse-setup/109857/15 "2019-02-23T01:19:47Z")
Fantastic, thanks a ton!! I remember seeing that and will use it next time.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2019, 6:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/assistance-with-discourse-setup/109857/16 "2019-02-23T18:58:39Z")
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.