It was failing, but now I created a forum.mysite.com.conf file with the following content:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName forum.mysite.com
ServerAdmin my@gmail.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/mysite.com/public_html/forum
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/mysite.com/public_html/forum>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
It’s now getting me to apache’s default html message, which is at /var/www/html/
I’m not sure why