configure ghost and wordpress combo

[Hari]

Hello, I am trying to configure Ghost and WordPress, but I’m stuck on the Nginx configuration and SSL setup. With the help of ChatGPT, I installed PHP 8.3 and WordPress, but when I access wp.domain.com, it still loads domain.com (Ghost). I think I may have made a mistake somewhere. Where should I check for the issue?

[Madchatthew]

Did you also add wp.domain.com as an A record in your domain registry to point to your server IP? There are probably other ways of doing this as well. Whether you are using the DNS on the hosting provider to manage your dns or you go to where you have your domain registered, there you can usually add the wp.domain.com as an A record pointing to your server’s public IP address. Then it may take a little time for that to propagate out so you can ping wp.domain.com and see the ip address you added. I apologize if this sounds a little confusing.

I usually have it setup in it’s own .conf file with the root entry pointing/to/your/folder.

So example you have:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name wp.domain.com;
    root /path/to/your/subdomain/folder

    Then the rest of your setup here . . .
}

Then don’t forget to use

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/yourfilename.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/yourfilename.conf

You will also need to restart your nginx server sudo systemctl restart nginx

If you want to post your conf file we can take a look at it as well.

[phenomlab]

@Hari do you have seperate nginx.conf does for each domain?

[Madchatthew]

Did you also add wp.domain.com as an A record in your domain registry to point to your server IP? There are probably other ways of doing this as well. Whether you are using the DNS on the hosting provider to manage your dns or you go to where you have your domain registered, there you can usually add the wp.domain.com as an A record pointing to your server’s public IP address. Then it may take a little time for that to propagate out so you can ping wp.domain.com and see the ip address you added. I apologize if this sounds a little confusing.

I usually have it setup in it’s own .conf file with the root entry pointing/to/your/folder.

So example you have:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name wp.domain.com;
    root /path/to/your/subdomain/folder

    Then the rest of your setup here . . .
}

Then don’t forget to use

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/yourfilename.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/yourfilename.conf

You will also need to restart your nginx server sudo systemctl restart nginx

If you want to post your conf file we can take a look at it as well.

[Hari]

@Madchatthew, thanks! I’ve set up Nginx and added SSL for both domains.

At first, I used DigitalOcean’s one-click setup to install Ghost on domain.com. Later, I also installed Ghost on domain2.com, and that worked without any issues.

But when I tried setting up wp.domain.com for WordPress, it kept redirecting to domain2.com instead of wp.domain.com after doing all the ngnix settings.

I gave up on that setup and tried installing WordPress on another droplet with a LEMP stack, but I ran into an issue with the upload file size limit. I might chose to Hostinger for hosting WordPress instead.