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dave's avatar
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Server disappeared after building.

Hi all

I'm totally new to forge but I'm following Jeffery's instructions on how to set up a server using Forge and Digital Ocean. I bought an account and set a server up and it stayed in the "Building" phase for about 10 minutes. After which, the server disappeared from the screen and I can't access the server given the server's id in the URL.

There's something weird going on with my nav bar too, when I refresh the page say on /dashboard it flickers and shows other items in the navigation like Servers and Sites, but they quickly disappear. When I try to access /servers/{id} or /sites I get an error that says "Whoops, looks like something went wrong."

Note: The droplet was created on Digital Ocean's end.

Has anyone else had an issue like this before?

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Kemito's avatar

For testing you should try to set debug => true on application settings to see which error it spits out on production site. (just do debug what is going on)

dave's avatar
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@Kemito There's nothing on the server just yet. I've not connected a repo to it. I just want to access the server I created but it's not there.

Kemito's avatar

If it does not charge anything maybe try to re-install this things (new DO droplet aswell as new forge item) maybe there was some issue with it at that time, glitch or something. If that does not help i guess you can contact forge support to resolve this issue.

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I had to add a new server, delete the old droplet on digital ocean and create a new one. Taylor said it was an issue with Forge connecting to Digital Ocean. Thanks for the responses.

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