Question

This site can’t be reached 78.62.221.xx took too long to respond

Posted on December 20, 2016
Ubuntu 16.04 Apache
Asked by Marc de Ruijter

Freshly installed apache2 on ubuntu. the default apache page showed. i made 1 minor config change (in dir.conf) and installed php mysql then i kept getting this error: “This site can’t be reached”

No DNS involved, just on the IP address.

Traceroute reaches 178.62.221.23 Portscan tells that port 80 on 178.62.221.23 is open I can telnet into port 80 on 178.62.221.23 Apache error log gives no errors Apache access.log show nothing special Apache2 is running Apache configuration files gives no errors sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html // give www-data access to webroot

The only change i made was to dir.conf to put index.php first

I have spent a few hours troubleshooting this to no avail. Then i removed PHP, MySQL and Apache and re-installed Apache, still i get: This site can’t be reached 78.62.221.23 took too long to respond.

Should i just delete my droplet and start a new one?

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Marc de Ruijter • December 20, 2016

Accepted Answer

big oops. i used the wrong IP address. problem solved

oshindecoration • April 17, 2018

Long time

ferlycili123 • September 6, 2018

please this my id 001461031076