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I've created new server on forge and it's been 7 minutes in provisioning and it's still going on. I am using digitalocean. Is this normal?
it takes a few minutes to complete the provision process. once the server is created, it will install all of the options you've selected such as php, database servers, composer, etc. have you checked your DO dashboard to see if the server exists? if so, my guess would be it's installing the web server requirements. it's not immediate but from experience i think the longest i had to wait for everything to finish was within 10 minutes.
I guess it also depends on how powerful your VPS is.
I have been stuck on "Building" for more than 30 minutes now. I deployed one before this and the server magically disappeared and did not show up under /servers. I had to deploy anther and it is now still saying building 30 minutes later. I am using AWS. I can see the EC2 instance running but still no luck in Laravel Forge.
same here
It shouldn't take longer than maybe 2 minutes.
What usually occurs is that the default VPC's don't have Forge's IP's whitelisted. You can either go whitelist prior to server creation, or you can ensure that your IAM account has VPC admin as well and then choose 'create new' under the vpc.
It will then create your own cloud & self configure its allowances and create the server from there.
I had the same problem. It only unlocks the build process when I configured the VPC rules manually (even if the AmazonVPCFullAccess permission is configured in IAM): https://forge.laravel.com/docs/servers/providers.html
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