Digital Ocean DNS for Subdomain (Not Multisite) w/ LetsEncrypt

trellis
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Tried a bunch of different settings with A and CNAME records and haven’t struck gold yet.

Just wondering if somebody can give me a solid example of what DNS records should look like to get LE and multiple subdomains working.

Thanks!

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It should be as simple as creating your A records pointing to your DO droplet’s IP, waiting for the DNS changes to propagate (key point here, this can take up to 48 hours), adding the subdomains to group_vars/production/wordpress_sites.yml and provisioning or reprovisioning your droplet.

What part isn’t working?

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I was missing the www.subdomain A record!

Future reference - A Records for Sub Domains & LE require both subdomain & www.subdomain to be added.

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I have not found this to be true, but I’m glad you were able to solve your problem.

For clarity, you’re saying you added…

domain.com
www.domain.com
subdomain.domain.com
www.subdomain.domain.com

?

You added these both to your DNS host and to Trellis?

Who is your DNS host if you don’t mind my asking?

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That’s right mate.

That being said my group_vars are like this which to me makes sense that the A Records would have to be like that.

wordpress_sites:
  domain.com.au:
site_hosts:
  - canonical: domain.com.au   
    redirects:
      - www.domain.com.au
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