Unable to install Statamic on Digital Ocean Ubuntu droplet

[vhbelvadi]

I created a digital ocean droplet with Ubuntu and followed the instructions on this page until installing Composer which went alright when I ran the composer command. The next step is to cd /var/www but this gives me an error saying the directory doesn’t exist. I’m in root and when I ls I see a folder called ‘snap’.

[joshuablum]

Hey @vhbelvadi,

You could create that directory of course (mkdir /var/www). But that alone will probably not solve your problem.

Make sure that your server is properly set up and configured with a web server (like nginx).

Did you create and configure your droplet manually? We recommend to use a service like Laravel Forge or Ploi.io(they even offer a free tier) to provision and manage the server. All necessary packages and dependencies to set up by those services.

Otherwise I would suggest to follow a guide like this to set up your droplet.

Hope that helps :)

[vhbelvadi]

Thanks. It seems to be working alright after I redid the Nginx setup.