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Sandeep Singh Bhadouria
Sandeep Singh Bhadouria

Reputation: 11

DigitalOcean - Access localhost from the DigitalOcean droplet

I have recently created a droplet on DigitalOcean and installed Docker on the server. I ran docker container run -d -p 8080:80 nginx on the server. This command runs perfectly, as checked by docker ps command. But how do I access the localhost:8080 on DigitalOcean server as localhost:8080 on my machine doesn't work?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2162

Answers (2)

Vaibhav Kumar
Vaibhav Kumar

Reputation: 11

When you try to access it by localhost:8080 on your local machine, it will search your local machine. It's a loopback destination, you may know it by 127.0.0.1

If you want to access you digitalocean droplet on your local machine, you can use :8080

Upvotes: 0

Greg Cowell
Greg Cowell

Reputation: 693

You need to find out the public IP address or DNS name of your DigitalOcean server. Then use either ipaddress:8080 or dnsname:8080.

localhost refers only to the local machine and is mapped to the 127.0.0.1 IP address. It can only be accessed from the machine itself.

Upvotes: 1

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