Hi; I’ve purchased a VPS from digital ocean and used there one click install for discourse droplet. After entering the domain name etc. and doing the standard set up. Every time I go to my vps ip address (discourse has been installed on the main domain which I’ve pointed to the vps ip). Every time…

You should use the Discourse official Standard Installation . Discourse requires a hostname. It cannot run with a bare ip number. Make sure that you don’t have some reverse proxy like cloudflare.

I set it up using a domain name and pointed it towards the ip correctly. It still gives me a refused to connect. Even after waiting for over 24hrs.

Update: We installed apache2 to see if the ports are working etc and we’ve opened the ports. Apache2 showed up fine on the ip address but as soon as we removed apache2; we got the original issue again. We believe it to be an issue with docker and the ports. We just dont know how to fix it. Any i…

[image] LouisPiaf: For reference; we’ve also contact digitalocean as we used the discourse install from there marketplace. Destroy that droplet and reinstall following Install Discourse in production with the official, supported instructions

I’ve just tried that and the issue is still the same. Refused to connect.

What is your droplet IP and domain name? What is the output of docker ps ?

Droplet ip: 104.248.170.134 (it’s got the domain robloxfrance.com pointing towards it. But i’ve only recently updated the dns records to point the domain to the ip.) Docker ps output: CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS …

[image] LouisPiaf: But i’ve only recently updated the dns records to point the domain to the ip. If you pointed the DNS after running the setup, you will fail the certificate emission step and may end up with nginx failing to start. Can you try a ./launcher rebuild app.

I’ve just tried the ./launcher rebuild app Still no luck.

What is the output of curl -v localhost ?

Port issue - Please help

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Falco (Falco) February 17, 2021, 5:23pm 5

Destroy that droplet and reinstall following Install Discourse in production with the official, supported instructions

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