Running WriteFreely on a VPS

[ramnik]

Hello Matt, I’m not able to run writefreely on my VPS. This is what I’m getting….

[matt]

Hi, what seems to be the trouble? Looks like it started up correctly on port 8080.

Do you have a reverse proxy set up, so you can access the site from outside of your VPS?

[ramnik]

Thanks for your quick response. Yes I did. Although I’m not a programmer and I followed the steps mentioned below

Simple install How To

WriteFreely - VPS with Nginx and mysql. Disclaimer: Getting WriteFreely up and running on a VPS for the person on the street - in other words ‘for the layperson’. I am very far away from being a developer type. I can put a basic website together and upload it to a server; cope with very, very simple problem solving in code etc; that’s about it. So this guide is pretty simple from these perspectives. External links to Digital Ocean are guides that I found easy to follow, there is a lot of other …

This is the output I’m getting on the IP http://159.89.165.69/