# Digitalocean help

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/digitalocean-help/156782>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [July 4, 2020, 4:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digitalocean-help/156782 "2020-07-04T16:10:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Alex8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/65b543/32.png) [@Alex8](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alex8)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 4:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digitalocean-help/156782/1 "2020-07-04T16:10:16Z")

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So On digitalocean I get the error message WARNING: Port 443 of computer does not appear to be accessible using hostname:

It there a fix?

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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digitalocean-help/156782/2 "2020-07-04T16:39:46Z")

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Did you create a dns A record for your host name with the correct ip address? And there are no other A records pointing to other addresses?

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**Author:** ![Alex8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/65b543/32.png) [@Alex8](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alex8)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digitalocean-help/156782/3 "2020-07-04T17:24:21Z")

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Thanks for the help I made a dns record and it works thank you.

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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digitalocean-help/156782/4 "2020-07-05T00:06:21Z")

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What should that error message have said to convince you that you needed to set up dns?