So, I’ve got nginx up and running just fine, serving the main static site like I want it to. I’ve also got Ghost running just fine; if I plug in my site’s address and append :2368, I can look at the blog right now. Here’s how my zone file looks:
$ORIGIN landermkerbey.com.
$TTL 1800
landermkerbey.com. IN SOA ns1.digitalocean.com. hostmaster.landermkerbey.com. 1430683439 10800 3600 604800 1800
landermkerbey.com. 1800 IN A 162.243.45.221
landermkerbey.com. 1800 IN NS ns1.digitalocean.com.
landermkerbey.com. 1800 IN NS ns2.digitalocean.com.
landermkerbey.com. 1800 IN NS ns3.digitalocean.com.
*.landermkerbey.com. 1800 IN CNAME landermkerbey.com.
blog.landermkerbey.com. 1800 IN A 162.243.45.221
I have one nginx/sites-available file for both the main site and the blog, both of which have symbolic links in the sites-enabled directory. The one for the blog looks like this:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
server_name blog.landermkerbey.com;
access_log /var/log/nginx/ghost.log
client_max_body_size 10G;
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:2368;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_buffering off;
}
It also has a location /doc and location /images section, though those are unedited from the default file provided by nginx.
As for my config.js file, I went ahead and modified the production section:
// ### Production
// When running Ghost in the wild, use the production environment
// Configure your URL and mail settings here
production: {
url: 'http://blog.landermkerbey.com',
mail: {},
database: {
client: 'sqlite3',
connection: {
filename: path.join(__dirname, '/content/data/ghost.db')
},
debug: false
},
server: {
// Host to be passed to node's net.Server#listen()
host: '127.0.0.1',
// Port to be passed to node's net.Server#listen(), for iisnode set this to process.env.PORT
port: '2368'
}
},
So, what am I doing wrong? Should the blog and main site be contained in a single sites-available file?
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The Wildcard DNS Entry should be an A entry, not a CNAME.
*.landermkerbey.com. 1800 IN CNAME landermkerbey.com.
should be:
*.landermkerbey.com. 1800 IN A landermkerbey.com.
The same would apply if you were adding a single sub-domain, without the Wildcard Entry:
mysub.landermkerbey.com. 1800 IN A landermkerbey.com.
If you’re using DigitalOcean to manage your DNS, then you’d simply enter the following in to the form:
Enter Name: *
Enter IP Address: [DROPLET-IP]
and then click submit. You’ll want to remove the CNAME with the Wildcard.
As an A entry, all attempts to access sub.yourdomain.ext will be sent to yourdomain.ext unless there’s a valid server block defined and included when NGINX (re)starts. This includes www, thus, there’s no real need to have a CNAME for www either (and you don’t, just pointing it out).
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