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Can't Get Simple Website Working

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I’ve been following the Linode guide to get my website setup. But when I hit the URL the page does not load (a simple “Hello World” index.html file) - my browser stalls and then timeouts.

Looking for trouble shooting tips.

  • When I ping my website URL it returns my Linode IP address.

  • The permissions were their own detour but I’ve set the group to www-data on the www directory and below.

  • Nothing written to my /log directory files.

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Timing out sounds like a firewall issue. Make sure it's not blocking port 80/443.

That was my issue. Thank you. sudo ufw allow 80/tcp did the trick.

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