So I’ve now got two websites. Finally I’m doing something with my other domain name, jeannelmah.com, which I bought almost a year ago. (Yes, I spent ~$11* on it and left it sitting there for almost an entire year, sue me.)
*Prices on this blog are in SGD cause I’m Singaporean and living in Singapore
So here is the breakdown of my two sites:
jeannelmah.rocks – Basically my blog. This blog that you’re reading now. The TLD is for vanity, cause hey, I rock.
jeannelmah.com – This is going to be my website. I’ve not decided what I want to do with it yet. I might make it similar-ish to Yong Jie’s website, with a link to the blog and my resume. Probably not with the big background image of *me*, I don’t like to see my face very much.
Alright. So lets get talking about how I set up the two sites on my single, $7/mth Droplet.
First, I followed this tutorial, and also changed the IP where my domain jeannelmah.com was pointing to (which took a few hours to propagate. So if you change your IP, don’t fret if its not going exactly where you want immediately.
After that, I had another problem. The domain was pointing to the correct server… but not to the correct page. It was showing my blog instead of the blank white page that says “TEST Jeannel” on it.
And so, I journey back into /etc/apache2/sites-available to see what’s wrong. And there was nothing wrong with how it was configured (I even sent screenshots to Yong Jie to double check). The fix…. all I had to do was restart my apache and it was fine. Damnit.
“Did you try turning it off and on again?”
~sudo service apache2 restart, 2016
So all would be well once everything is nicely configured right? Not quite. Turns out, while I could get to my blog, I couldn’t get to my wordpress admin login page.
Why did this happen? Well, when I initially set up my wordpress, I hadn’t assigned the .rocks domain name and it was using my IP address as the wordpress URL (so the admin page was at “(My IP Address/wp-admin). Since now the default settings (where my IP address points to, and where typing my IP address in the browser will bring you) was pointing to a different Document Root, it can’t find (Default Document Root/wp-admin). This can be fixed by pointing the 000-default.conf file to the right document root. I also subsequently changed my wordpress settings such that jeannelmah.rocks is the wordpress URL.
Next Steps: DO SOMETHING WITH JEANNELMAH.COM