Question
Point a Subdomain to Droplet
- Posted on November 4, 2023
- DigitalOcean DropletsDNSNetworking
Asked by DragosBucur99
I have a domain example.com that I use for the frontend of my application, hosted on Vercel. I’ve passed the DNS records provided by Vercel to my registrar (Squarespace). If I access example.com the frontend is being displayed.
Now, I have a droplet for the backend of my application which for now only has some dependencies and Nginx installed. If I visit http://droplet-ip the default Nginx page is displayed. How can I achieve the same behaviour by visiting http://api.example.com ?
I’ve added a new DNS record to Squarespace:
- Host: api | Type: A | Data: <droplet’s ipv4>
But for some reason when I try to visit http://api.example.com it redirects me to https://api.example.com and a Vercel specific error is being displayed “Deployment not found”. What am I doing wrong here?
I did not modify any NS and if I use the DNS lookup tool (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tools/dns) to search for api.example.com it displays Owner: DIGITALOCEAN
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Heya @dragos1412,
First, you need to make sure your DNS is working properly. Try to do a ping
Does it return your Droplet’s IP address? If, yes, then good!
As for Nginx, you need to configure your api.example.com domain in your Nginx configuration. Check the following docs :
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-nginx-on-ubuntu-22-04#step-5-setting-up-server-blocks-recommended
It should help with what you need.