Subdomains on Ubuntu LTS 12.04 with ngnix and ghost

Question

So I had my droplet setup to point directly to a ghost installation I made during the configuration of the droplet. My DNS record is like this:

A @ my.ip.address CNAME * @

And the DNS records for DO

so if I went to mydomain.com my ghost blog would load.

Now I wanna make some changes, I would like to have a subdomain for example: blog.mydomain.com that points to my ghost blog and leave a static html(or another type of content) to mydomain.com

I’m trying to follow this tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-nginx-virtual-hosts-server-blocks-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts--3

But it didn’t work, and I beleive it’s because I didn’t setup the DNS records properly and perhaps didn’t setup the permissions properly.

How can I setup a subdomain and keep my current ghost install?

Thanks for the time!

Andrew SB · Answer

Your DNS settings look fine. Now it’s a matter of getting your Nginx configuration right. You need to use the server_name directive. So your conf might look something like:

server {listen 80;server_name blog.example.com ; client_max_body_size 10M; location / { proxy_pass http://localhost:2368/; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_buffering off; } }server {listen 80;server_name example.com ; root /var/www/example.com/public_html; index index.html index.htm; }

Let us know how it goes!

ronerazo · Answer

Thanks for the info astarr It finally worked, I had to tinker with nginx a bit since I hadn’t used it before, your config helped me, so for anyone looking to something like this here is my config file for nginx: http://pastebin.com/PPNQzfCX And just be wary of a couple of things:-Remember to run ghost again, I stopped the service and forgot to start it again.-Restart nginx to apply any config changes Thanks for the help

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