Thanks for the response, @alexdo.

I’d prefer to stick with Apache mostly because I’m still very much new to self-managed VPS and Apache has an exponentially larger knowledge base (it’s likely easier too). I was able to follow all of the new-server tutorials plus the LAMP tutorial and had an active website ready in no time at all. Super easy.

I’ve already seen the thread you linked to and the tutorial provided in response to it is, unfortunately, quite inaccurate. Most of the steps are out of order and the configurations for VirtualHosts, per the community at Discourse, are wrong.

For the most part, the tutorial went smoothly until completion where Discourse simply didn’t load. I have Discourse installed as a subdomain (community.mysite.com) but when navigating there, it just showed my frontpage instead and a broken SSL certificate. Speaking of SSL, the tutorial also doesn’t show a proper way to make that work for Discourse.

I’ve already tried finding tutorials over at Discourse but the two tutorials everyone links to are dated from several years ago when their config files were much different and those tutorials use CentOS and Nginx rather than Ubuntu and Apache as I do.