(This is an updated version of Clearfire's tutorial, which is excellent, but has become slightly outdated as Digital Ocean updates their applications.)
- Create your droplet. Name it, select your size and location, then hit the Applications tab and select (as of this writing) "LAMP on 14.04". Add your SSH key if you want, and submit.
- SSH into your new droplet, and maybe check to make sure the following PHP modules have been installed: (In my recent experience, these have all been installed automatically, but that could change, and it takes 10 seconds to check.)
apt-get install php5-gd
apt-get install php5-mysql
apt-get install php5-curl
- Make sure mod_rewrite is enabled, with
a2enmod rewrite
. - If you like, increase PHP's
upload_max_filesize
andpost_max_filesize
values by editing the php.ini file, with this:nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
- Give Apach