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Hello,
I have a multi-tenant app that works fine. No issues. I've got a wild-card ssl cert with letsencrypt and that is working great.
However, I've got a couple of clients who want custom domains. So something like foo.myapp.com point to foo.com. OK, I can do that with an A Record on their DNS and with a couple of app-level modifications I'm good to go.
The problem is that the SSL certs aren't work. I tried to add a new SSL cert and I get an error that LetsEncrypt states challenge is invalid! (returned: invalid).
So has anyone done this before? Happy to give more information but DNS and server stuff is really not my area of expertise so I'm not 100% sure if this is even something Forge can do.
Laravel Forge doesn't support this out of the box. Instead, you need to update your nginx config to make this work.
This should put you in the right direction: https://mattstauffer.com/blog/applying-an-ssl-cert-to-a-laravel-forge-sites-www.-domain/
@bobbybouwmann thanks man I appreciate the help! I followed the notes there and I've got a new SSL cert installed and I created a new nginx config file in my sites-available for the new domain, but I'm still getting the connection warning and when I view the cert it's still showing my primary wildcard cert. Is this just one of those things that can take time to propagate or did I do something potentially wrong?
Creating the second nginx file should do the trick. Did you restart nginx? Also, did you create a symlink to /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/domain-two.com.conf
You can find more info here: https://www.serverlab.ca/tutorials/linux/web-servers-linux/how-to-configure-multiple-domains-with-nginx-on-ubuntu/
I am finding the solution for that too. Did you find the solutions yet?
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