I apologize if this seems like a really basic question, what I want to do seems to me like something a lot of people would want to do, but my own use of Google/search couldn’t find anything on it. I have a site at domain.com (using apache), and I want to have a Discourse forum for that site at foru…

[image] epsteindidnt: I believe I have all the DNS setup correctly, with both the root domain and forum subdomain pointing/resolving to the same IP. They should resolve to two different IP’s Root to the IP of the Apache server forum. sub-domain to the IP of your Discourse server

I have both on the same server & therefore the same IP. Is that the problem, do I need two servers for this kind of setup? The documentation said forum.domain.com should have same IP as domain.com . Is there a way to do this without using 2 servers? My client probably doesn’t want to pay to run a…

The standard set up for what you want to achieve is two servers. I believe it is achievable on the same server .. I’ve never tried it. Good luck. [image] Set up Discourse on a server with existing Apache sites Sysadmins It’s not as daunting as it sounds! Whi…

You need to educate your client that root and any subdomains are different websites. Especially if they expect to grow visitor numbers. Sure, but the same server can run tons of different websites, no?

Yes you can. I hope you get it working.

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geoff777 December 25, 2020, 7:48pm 2

They should resolve to two different IP’s

Root to the IP of the Apache server
forum. sub-domain to the IP of your Discourse server

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