Blazingfast.io Domain & Discourse hosted externally (Can't access domain)

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Issue with Discourse Setup on Externally Hosted VPS

2TapPrince is experiencing issues setting up Discourse on their externally hosted VPS, with a domain from Blazingfast.io. Despite disabling the firewall and proxy, and whitelisting their VPS IP, the setup process fails to establish a connection to the subdomain community.playnocturn.com.

The error messages indicate that ports 80 and 443 are not accessible. 2TapPrince notes that another website is running on the same VPS using Apache on port 80.

khenmu suggests a possible solution, referencing a Discourse meta post on setting up Discourse on a server with existing Apache sites: https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-set-up-discourse-on-a-server-with-existing-apache-sites/30013

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Hello,

I wanted to set up discourse at my externally hosted VPS. I got a domain from blazingfast.

However, I run the setup, and it said that it can’t access my subdomain. So I contacted blazingfast to disable the firewall and its protection (proxy) and whitelist my vps ip because they usually don’t allow connections from outside their network. I tried running the setup again, and it says it can’t establish a connection.

The subdomain points to my externally hosted vps.

I did the following steps.

Hostname for your Discourse? [discourse.example.com]: community.playnocturn.com
Checking your domain name . . .
WARNING: Port 443 of computer does not appear to be accessible using hostname:  community.playnocturn.com.
WARNING: Connection to http://community.playnocturn.com (port 80) also fails.

Is there anything missing? Much appreciated.

PS: I forgot to mention that I have another website running at that VPS on port 80 (apache)

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See if this helps;