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I am following the tutorial here to set up a server. I installed nginx and checked my version with nginx -V (nginx/1.5.6).

The tutorial says: "If you've done everything right, accessing your Ubuntu server's IP address or DNS name in a web browser should yield the [nginx welcome page]."

I logged in to ssh with myname@serverIPaddress and now I copied and pasted serverIPaddress to browser but I get the "Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to serverIPaddress"

What am I doing wrong?

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I am answering my own question. The problem was nginx was not running:

root@b:~# sudo service nginx status
 * nginx is not running
root@b:~# sudo service nginx start
 * Starting nginx nginx                       [ OK ] 
root@b:~# sudo service nginx status
 * nginx is running
root@b:~#

Now entering the IP address of the server takes me to the correct page.

See this answer.

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