This is part of a series of discussions regarding Deploying to a Digital Ocean Droplet.

For more details, please see Deploy TaskMuncher

Maintaining Ubuntu Droplet

Update Npm

sudo npm install -g npm

Update Ubuntu

sudo apt-get update

did not retrieve any updates, just gets package information.

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

older dist:
sudo apt-get upgrade

continue?
Y

A new version of /boot/grub/menu.lst is available, but the version installed currently has been locally modified.

Keep the local version currently installed.

Then restart the droplet

Restart the droplet

sudo reboot

Shutdown / Restart Droplet

Login to digitalocean.com

Select droplet

Console:

login as root

shutdown -h now

This will shut down your operating system, flush any pending changes to the disk, and then terminate power to your server.

Visit the control panel and select the option to power on your Droplet.

Verify droplet is not running

• Dashboard
• Access
• Launch Console
• Verify droplet is not running.

To start the droplet

• Dashboard
• Power
• Power cycle

Verify droplet is running

• Access
• Launch Console
• Login to verify droplet is running.

Renew SSL Certificates

See Update SSL Certificates to Ubuntu at Digital Ocean

Nginx

Restart Nginx

nginx-restart

or

sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl restart nginx

Stop Nginx

sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl stop nginx

Troubleshooting

Verify running

ps -ef | grep nginx

Check Nginx enabled servers

cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
ls -la

Enable https

enable-https

Enable http

enable-http

PM2

To restart PM2

pm2 restart all

To setup PM2 for the application

handle-pm2

Status

pm2 list

and then pm2 show {id}, which provides details about the task. Notice the logs

PM2 Logs

Check the logs

/home/jv/.pm2/logs/*
/home/jv/.pm2/pm2.log

PM2 Other

pm2 monit

swap

sudo swapon --summary
free -h

Logs

Nginx logs /var/log/nginx

Check for bots

sudo vi /var/log/access.log

and

sudo vi /var/log/error.log

can sometimes have messages of some interest.

Firewall

May need to change the firewall

sudo ufw deny from XXX.XXX.XX.XX

List Rules

sudo ufw status numbered