Hello,

I'm sorry but I need some help with configuring a subdomain on my VPS.. I'm not really good with things when it comes to the whole A, CNAME, AAAA records thing - I much prefer to open notepad and start typing up some PHP.

Anyway, so I have my domain at http://www.example.com registered with Gandi and changed it's nameservers to point to the Linode VPS and setup nginx and everything is working great! Now however; I would like to add a subdomain and I've tried to set it up but I"m not sure what I've done wrong.

First I went into Linodes DNS manager and set up a new A record for sub.example.com and pointed it to my Linode VPS ip address.

Then I added the following to my nginx configuration just below my main configuration for my website:



Lastly I reloaded the nginx configuration and restarted the nginx service and when I try to navigate to sub.example.com I get a time out error and when I try to ping sub.example.com it resolves to a filler IP address (123.123.123.123). Did I do something wrong or am I missing something? Any help would be greatly apprecaited - thanks

If it doesn't resolve to a valid ip, it's not getting to your server for nginx to render a page.

Double check your DNS setup.

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