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Hey, another question. I have a vps server that is hosting a laravel app, which works fine. No problems. Now I want to add a subdomain with another laravel app, but it says site can't be reached. I created a virtualhost for the subdomain outside of the /var/www/html folder to avoid conflicts and set the subdomain up in Godaddy. Did I miss a step?
Did you allow enough time for the DNS to propagate? GoDaddy is notoriously slow and could take a few days. Also, make sure your .env file is updated for APP_URL to refer to the subdomain. There are many tools to check your DNS to make sure it is correct.
@EJDELMONICO - I checked the .env file and the APP_URL shows http://localhost, perhaps you are right. So I would need to change the APP_URL to http://subdomain.domain.com with subdomain being my preferred sub domain and .domain.com being my domain. Do I have that right?
What are the DNS tools that you can recommend
Ping your two websites. If they both return the IP address of your VPS then your DNS is fine
What webserver is it, Apache or NGINX ?
@SNAPEY - it is apache
So you have created two virtual hosts files and enabled them?
Each virtual host file points to the public folder of the relevant website?
@SNAPEY - I think you might be right when I tried to trace route of the subdomain I get this error
Temporary failure in name resolution Cannot handle "host" cmdline arg
I'll have to go back to the Godaddy records and see.
You only need to run ping from your PC to prove the DNS
@SNAPEY - yes. Both are enabled. I put the subdomain outside of the html folder, I wonder if that is it
There are many steps to setting apache for multiple virtual hosts.
This tutorial is from Digital Ocean but the steps are for apache and apply anywhere. I've used it multiple times to get a new server working how I like.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-16-04
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