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/

[damaru]

It’s really simpler to get started without the mysql first to see if you can get it running. Which it seems to be running. Also the documentation here have all the settings you need:

https://writefreely.org/start

If you are first time using a vps, I would suggest to get a normal test site on nginx. Once that’s up and running try to install writefreely without a database. You would only need a database in a multi user setting.

Right now I cannot see any port open on your server, so you might have a firewall that block everything… Are you using Digital ocean and what OS are you using? Digital ocean have very good tutorials to get you starting running your own nginx instance.