I can hit my droplet’s IP, but I just see the first site I set up. Once I transfer a domain I can get to it and everything works, but I’d like to test and configure a site before I transfer the domain’s DNS over to the new droplet.
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@jough.dempsey <br> <br>So your site has sub-domains, and you’d like to test them before switch over the domain’s DNS. Is that right? <br> <br>Unfortunately, you can’t use sub-domains with just an IP number. I’d suggest either temporarily setting your virtual hosts to point to folders e.g. your.ip.address/subdomain1, your.ip.address/subdomain2 or setting up DNS to point to new “stagging” sub-domains. Something like: <br> <br>subdomain1-stagging.your-domain.com <br>subdomain2-stagging.your-domain.com <br>
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