Moving to Subdomain: crussells is seeking help in moving their Discourse instance from the root domain (foo.com) to a subdomain (talk.foo.com). itsbhanusharma confirmed that it is possible, but may involve some downtime and varies in complexity depending on the active content. A guide is available for reference.
Additionally, itsbhanusharma advised that hosting external pages on the same droplet is possible with additional configuration, and provided a guide for this setup. It was recommended to use a LEMP stack instead of LAMP for easier configuration.
I’m a new discourse user, converted from phpbb, and I’m loving it, though modding is a bit trickier. I have a couple questions I was hoping to get a hand with;
My Discourse instance is running on a digitalocean droplet, and I unfortunately didnt have the foresight to put it on a subdomain such as talk.foo.com, it’s currently at foo.com. Would anyone know if its possible to move it on to a subdomain rather than having it on the root?
Assuming the above is possible, am I able to still host pages external to discorse on the same droplet? Such as a more traditional hope page with a link to the discorse? I presume so.. would I just install LAMP on the droplet?
Yes, it is possible, The amount of work depends upon how much active content you have. This migration may include some downtime as well.
I don’t know exactly about your setup but this guide can be a good reference for what you want:
You can do that, but it requires additional set of configuration to your droplet.
Here is a Guide for that:
That can be done but I’d recommend a LEMP stack instead (it makes things much easier)