Discourse installation successful, but still nothing on the domain and IP of the server

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I have a domain pointng to my DIgitalOcean droplet, the installation completed successfully using the repo cloned from git. But i can’t find the forum on my domain, neither on the IP address. While the server ports 80 and 443 are listening, which confirms that the service is running.

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What is the IP of the server and the domain of the site?

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Did you run discourse-setup as described in the standard install?

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Domain: forum.jcdesigngroup.xyz
IP: 159.65.83.150

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yes i used the ./discourse-setup script, answered the questions and it completed successfully. I am able to view the docker container that is running discourse, but not accessible from the browser.

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Can you ssh to that server at 159.65.83.150? I confirm that’s the address that your domain resolves to.

discourse-setup tests that the domain resolves, so I’m not quite sure what the issue might be.

What is the output of

 docker ps

and

tail /var/discourse/shared/standalone/log/var-log/nginx/access.log
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Yes, its resolved because during the discourse-setup it displayed “connection to forum.jcdesigngroup.xyz scceeded”.

Output of docker ps:

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Output of tail command on the specified directory shows that “No such directory”.

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It’s up now. It looks like it took an insanely long time for the server to start up. I looked a couple hours ago and it was a 502 error, suggesting that nginx was working but that Rails hadn’t fully booted up yet.

I’m wondering if 1GB isn’t a very good idea anymore.

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No, actually the reason was that the domain name jcdesigngroup.xyz was not running a website and i was using the subdomain, when discourse tried to get SSL certificates for it, it was getting an error that the domain jcdesigngroup.xyz has no valid CAA, i configured the nameservers for it also. And after rebuilding the app, i got it running. I am having an issue with the SMTP server, but i hope it will get resolved soon.

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No issue with low-specs (1 GB Ram) oracle free servers though. Between nginx starting up and the forum being actually running, you just have to wait a few seconds.

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