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Add instructions for deploying on Digital Ocean VPS

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
nextjs, nodejs, ubuntu

Research direction

Start by reproducing the reported deployment flow on an Ubuntu 20.04 DigitalOcean Droplet with yarn build and yarn start, checking why the build is killed before next start runs. The documentation is done when it gives a complete VPS deployment tutorial that reaches a working production site and addresses the missing .next build error.

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Description

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Would like some instructions on using this on Ubuntu 20.04 Droplet with NodeJs. Struggling to get this live. After running yarn build (which seems to be killed midway through) and then yarn start in production environment, I keep getting this error:

Could not find a production build in the '/var/www/example.com/.next' directory. Try building your app with 'next build' before starting the production server.

Would appreciate a tutorial on showing how this can be done.

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