Given I have an example.com
domain hosted on a different name-server different from Digital Ocean’s. Tutorials and links say to add an A record for the sub-domain using the DNS manager of the current host. I did that and added an app.example.com
sub-domain and pointed it to the IP address of the droplet running the application to be hosted on the sub-domain.
Now, the A records look like so
Zone id. ************
Record Id ***********
Name app.example.com
Class IN
Type A
Status Active
Value dropletIPAddressHere
TTL 7200
Creation Date 2019-05-15 03:54:22.909377
Now, in my droplet, I have Apache configured like so
ServerName app.example.com
ServerAlias www.app.example.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/public
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/html>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
However, I still can’t reach the application through the sub-domain URL but using it’s IP address things work just fine. Is there anything I still need to do on my end? Please help!!!
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Hello,
The way that you’ve configured both your DNS and your Apache Vhost look correct, note that it might take between 1 and 72 hours for the DNS to propagate over the Globe before your domain name actually starts resolving from the new IP address.
Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby