Monday 11 May 2015

Creating subdomain on Digital Ocean

Directory
html refers to main site.
demo , blog outside html (folder) refers to subdomain.
1. Create a directory from command line
 sudo touch /var/www/your-directory
2. Create a conf file on location /etc/apache2/site-available/
 sudo touch /etc/apache2/sites-available/your-directory-name.domainname.com.conf
 Just copy 000-default.config data to newly created file above by below command
 sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf 
 /etc/apache2/site-available/your-directory-name.domainname.com.conf
 open file for edit 
 sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/your-directory-name.domainname.com.conf
 and replace 
 DocumentRoot /var/www/your-directory-name
 sudo service apache2 reload.
 sudo service apache2 restart. 
3. After above proceee go to amazon hosted zone just follow below steps.
 Create a records set put name of your choice in name required fields
 Put www.yourdomain.com. in value and save records set. it will take 10-15 min to process by amazon.

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