How do i setup subdomains for my droplet?

Question

Hi, I’ve set up a LAMP server on an Ubuntu VPS, installed webmin, created DNS records in DigitalOcean panel as instructed by the tutorials. Everything works just fine on the main domain name, but at this point I want to make a test subdomain: text.example.com to lead to /var/www/test/

I’ve been trying for a while now and I don’t know how to do it. Got lost in CNAME records, A records and settting up virtual hosts in webmin.

Does anybody have any pointers or any good tutorial on it? Thanks.

isaacalves · Answer

shivpatelspp suggests we add the new subdomain settings to the file: “/etc/apache2/sites-available/default file” if I want to add, let’s say, the subdomain “stage.mydomain.com ” , can I add it to the“/etc/apache2/sites-available/mydomain.com.conf” file ? I actually tried that and apache could not restart and I got the error “Syntax error on line 219 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf” . The error went away when I removed the subdomain settings from “mydomain.com.conf”. So apparently I cannot have my subdomain in the same conf file as my domain? Can/should I create a new .conf file for my subdomain or should it be in the 000-default.conf file? Thank you very much

Moisey Uretsky · Answer

We need to add a helper section to the DNS manager which will give a brief write-up on how to use DNS.

A lot of new customers that aren’t familiar with some of the DNS settings don’t know these things and it would help them out in getting the configs right the first time.

alvarix · Answer

Question:
When setting up a subdomain on LAMP, does each subdomain have its own conf file
eg:
/etc/apache2/sites-available/site.com
/etc/apache2/sites-available/sub.site.com

or do all the rules go in the same conf file for site.com ?
eg.

ServerName site.com
DocumentRoot …

ServerName sub.site.com
DocumentRoot …

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