By degorych
I have droplet with wordpress on DO. Also I have cloudfare A type record as example.com (ip is droplet ip). It working well but I want adding new alias as reviews.example.com. If user enter reviews.example.com he get my WP site as hi enter example.com. I added in cloudflare A record for reviews.example.com (ip is droplet ip) and added in DO networks new A record for reviews.example.com. But reviews.example.com is redirected to example.com. What I am doing wrong?
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Hello,
There are a few things that I could suggest here:
- If you are building a separate website for your
reviewssubdomain, I would recommend creating a new Apache Virtual Host so that the reviews subdomain could have its own document root and Apache configuration. You can follow the steps on how to do that here:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-18-04
- In case that you want the
reviewssubdomain to share the same files as your main website, for example, you would need to do that if you are building a WordPress Multisite. Then you need to edit the Apache virtual host for your main site and under theServerAliaslist add yourreviewssubdomain.
Note that in both cases after making the change to your Apache configuration, you would need to run a config test with:
sudo apachectl -t
And only if you get Syntax OK then start Apache.
Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby
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