Access zPanel via a Subdomain (Pre-Installation Steps)

January 29, 2015 1.2k views
djdouglas493
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djdouglas493

Hello,

First off, I am totally aware of the article located here that essentaially asks the samething i am asking, but when I attempted to follow it I got so lost my head was spinning. I am a web developer delving in server management. I am looking for a video or instructions on what to do BEFORE installing zPanel so that upon completion of the installation, if i go to zpanel.mysite.com; zPanel shows up, but if I go to just mysite.com, I want nothing to show up until I get the site set up.

I am running Ubuntu 12.04.5

Thank You very much, I apologize for the duplicate question,
Dave

P.S. A youtube video would be great if at all possible

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asb MOD June 21, 2016

In fact, there isn't much prior set up need to get zpanel up and running on a subdomain. The installer should walk you through it. One of the first prompt it gives you is for the sub-domain:

Enter the FQDN you will use to access ZPanel on your server.
- It MUST be a sub-domain of you main domain, it MUST NOT be your main domain only. Example: panel.yourdomain.com
- Remember that the sub-domain ('panel' in the example) MUST be setup in your DNS nameserver.
FQDN for zpanel: zpanel.example.com

The only thing you need to do prior to that is to create a DNS A record pointing your subdomain to your IP address. If you use the DigitalOcean control panel to manage your DNS, it would look like this:

DNS panel

For more info, check out:

How To Set Up and Test DNS Subdomains with DigitalOcean's DNS Panel
by Assaf Gordon
Here's some documentation on how to set up and test DNS subdomains with DigitalOcean's DNS panel.
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