Install didn't work on Digital Ocean. No reaction from server .Where are the log files

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Installation Issues with Digital Ocean

ColmGarvey encountered a “connection refused” error when accessing their custom domain on Digital Ocean after following the manual installation guide. To troubleshoot, they sought the location of the access logs to verify if connection requests were reaching the server.

After further investigation using a subdomain testing tool, ColmGarvey discovered that their site was actually working fine with HTTPS. They suspect the issue may have been related to subdomain redirection.

Pfaffman suggested that the problem was likely due to caching on ColmGarvey’s home computer, as the discourse-setup checks domain resolution during setup.

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Hello,

I’ve followed the manual installation to the letter (I think) but when I enter my custom domain name in a browser I get a “connection refused” message.

Where are the access logs for discourse so that I can see if at least my connection request is arriving as far as Digital Ocean. I set up the E-name entry on the domain host to point to the IP address of the droplet.

Is the connection done via https or not ? I don’t see any mention of activating/deactivating SSL during the default install so I’m not sure about that.

Best regards / Colm

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Go figure, after testing the subdomain with Free subdomain finder online 🛡️ find subdomains of domain ir showed up as fine and pointing at the right IP address and recognising a Discourse install.

When I clicked on the https://forums.clare-energy.ie link there it worked just fine !!

Perhaps there was something amiss on the subdomain redirection or something ??

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Likely just that your home computer had the old address cached (or cached not finding an address).

The discourse-setup checks that the domain resolves during setup.