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Setting up Domain on DigitalOcean to Django & Nginx

Posted on November 3, 2020

Finishing up site migration, I’ve been able to get it running on the droplet IP I’ve also checked if IP propagation is complete

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and I’ve added the domain to digitalocean

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When I try the domain I get This site can’t be reached. I’ve tried to set up the nginx file to match this

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name http://safariguides.org 162.243.173.84 safariguides.org;

    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location /static/ {
        root /home/sammy/webapps/kpsga;
    }
    location /media/ {
        root /home/sammy/webapps/kpsga;
    }

    location / {
        include proxy_params;
        proxy_pass http://unix:/run/gunicorn.sock;
    }
}

and in the settings file

DEBUG = True

ALLOWED_HOSTS = [
    'http://safariguides.org',
    'http://162.243.173.84/',
    '*'
]

finally adding the * for maximum matches.

checking for errors in nginx logs shows this

sammy@kpsga:~/webapps/kpsga/kpsga$ sudo tail -F /var/log/nginx/error.log
2020/11/03 06:55:50 [warn] 70740#70740: server name "http://safariguides.org" has suspicious symbols in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/kpsga:3
2020/11/03 07:00:36 [alert] 70778#70778: *14 open socket #16 left in connection 9
2020/11/03 07:00:36 [alert] 70778#70778: *15 open socket #17 left in connection 10
2020/11/03 07:00:36 [alert] 70778#70778: aborting
2020/11/03 07:00:36 [warn] 70858#70858: server name "http://safariguides.org" has suspicious symbols in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/kpsga:3
2020/11/03 07:00:36 [warn] 70869#70869: server name "http://safariguides.org" has suspicious symbols in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/kpsga:3
2020/11/03 07:04:34 [warn] 70893#70893: server name "http://safariguides.org" has suspicious symbols in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/kpsga:3
2020/11/03 07:04:34 [warn] 70905#70905: server name "http://safariguides.org" has suspicious symbols in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/kpsga:3
2020/11/03 07:08:24 [error] 70907#70907: *5 open() "/home/sammy/webapps/kpsga/media/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 128.199.240.166, server: http://safariguides.org, request: "GET /media/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml HTTP/1.1", host: "safariguides.org"
2020/11/03 07:08:24 [error] 70907#70907: *7 open() "/home/sammy/webapps/kpsga/media/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 128.199.240.166, server: http://safariguides.org, request: "GET /media/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml HTTP/1.1", host: "safariguides.org"

the error for a charachter i suspect is from http:\\ before sending this I removed it, restarted nginx but still the domain doesn’t register.



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Hi there @muirurisamuel,

Indeed your DNS looks all good.

At the moment your site is accessible via port 80 (HTTP), however, it does not work over port 443 which is https.

To fix that you need to install an SSL certificate, you can follow the steps here on how to do that:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-nginx-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-18-04

Regards, Bobby

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