lukecurtis's avatar

Provision Server and test on subdomain on different IP

Hey All,

I've searched Google but I can't really find a succinct answer to my question so I'm hoping you guys can help.

Basically, I've haven't gone live with a Laravel project yet and that requirements from the client add even more complication that I need some advise on.

We have a domain 'example.com' that has a Wordpress installation on it and I would like to host a Laravel project on a subdomain 'dev.example.com' for now until I'm ready to take it live which would eventually write over 'example.com'

However the server I'm getting provisioned isn't on any cloud provider (not my choice unfortunately) and is on a separate static IP to 'example.com'.

What the best way I can do this?

Sorry if this is super simple, I'm not well versed yet on best practice for this kind of thing.

Thanks in advanced.

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neilherbertuk's avatar

This is something you can do with your DNS, you'll need to create a cname or A record, pointing it at the server you want to serve from.

A cname can be pointed at a server hostname, or an a record can be pointed at an IP address.

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