Problems using a subdomain with Trellis production site

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I currently have a site that I am redoing with the roots development workflow. I used roots for a previous site and it worked great.

I was able to use a subdomain to load the roots production site on before I wanted to make it completely live (on plain domain name).

EXAMPLE:
website url: mysite.com (points to live site not roots production site)
subdomain: demo.mysite.com (points to Digital Ocean droplet running roots production site)

I was able to achieve this the first time I used roots but it seems that the stack has been updated pretty heavily since I made my first site.

I have the following serving block running on the Digital Ocean droplet that is running the roots stack:


# Ansible managed

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name  demo.mysite.com ;

  access_log   /srv/www/mysite/logs/access.log main;
  error_log    /srv/www/mysite/logs/error.log;

  root  /srv/www/mysite.com/current/web;
  index index.php index.htm index.html;
  add_header Fastcgi-Cache $upstream_cache_status;
  charset utf-8;

  # Set the max body size equal to PHP's max POST size.
  client_max_body_size 25m;

  include acme-challenge-location.conf;

  include includes.d/mysite.com/*.conf;

  # Prevent PHP scripts from being executed inside the uploads folder.
  location ~* /app/uploads/.*\.php$ {
    deny all;
  }

  location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
  }

  include h5bp/directive-only/x-ua-compatible.conf;
  include h5bp/directive-only/extra-security.conf;
  include h5bp/location/cross-domain-fonts.conf;
  include h5bp/location/protect-system-files.conf;

  location ~ \.php$ {
    try_files $uri /index.php;

    include fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $realpath_root;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm-wordpress.sock;
  }
}

It is basically the exact file that trellis makes but it’s name is demo.mysite.com not mysite.com. This is also the only file in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled directory.

I have an A record in my DO network settings that points demo.mysite.com to the the roots production site Droplet.

However when I load demo.mysite.com it routes to mysite.com.

If I change the demo.mysite.com nginx server block file and put minimal configs:

server {
        listen 80;
        listen [::]:80;

        root /var/www/test.com/html;
        index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

        server_name demo.mysite.com

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }
}

I get a 403 forbidden error.

One last thing all of the configurations in the trellis yaml files are for mysite.com not demo.mysite.com if that matters.