Click on the droplet name (In this case NGINX Sample) on the left navigation menu click Access and then click Launch Console. So here you can execute command lines directly to your server. So it’s a very convenient tool.

In order to log in. Remember you need your username and password. And this was e-mailed to you when we deployed the server. So this is what your username and password will look like

(root: a9d825311a8a2801224754bc78). The user name by default will be root and this long string is your password so you would just type in root press enter and then you would type in your password and you’re going to be logged in.

Also Read: How To Deploy a NGINX Web Server Droplet on DigitalOcean

Access DigitalOcean Through Terminal or Putty Console

If you are on WINDOWS or MAC, you either need terminal if you have a MAC system or Putty or even cmd if you have a Windows system. Open your terminal and type ” ssh root@yourserverip”.

So now immediately it requires that we change our current password into a new password. So it’s asking what is your current password. I’m going to paste that in because we already had it copied and I’m going to enter a new password and you can do the same. Just make sure that it’s something that’s easy to remember but also secure at the same time.

OK perfect.

Configure NGINX Web Server

Before we can install NGINX we’ll need to update our servers Package Index. This will ensure that when we install NGINX all the package repositories are up to date so to do this you first need to type in the following command:

apt update

Now we need to install NGINX . so type in

apt install nginx

It’s asking if we’re OK with the additional disk space that will be used. Type in Y and press ENTER. You can see the status from the progress bar. So with NGINX now installed we can test to make sure that it’s working by visiting the IP address in our web browser.