Create Subdomain with WPENGINE

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Im looking to create a subdomain hosted with wpengine.

They have no instructions to create a subdomain so I contacted support and they said you need to do it via the DNS settings within Cloudflare. Something I have no experiance of so im looking to verify this is correct before I go adding settings into the DNS panel.

im looking to simply create | sub.domain.com

I found this article >> https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168756-How-do-I-add-a-subdomain-to-my-site- but want to make sure what im entering into the form fields is correct as I dont want any conflicts on the main domain.

WPENGINE told me once the DNS subdomain redirect is created I can then add the subdomain as a domain in their control panel to start hosting files.

Any advice please.

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The subdomain is just a DNS entry here. It should either be an “A” record with an IP address, or a CNAME that points to a hostname at WP Engine. They should be able to tell you which one it should be.

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Thanks sdayman.

They never said. Ill go back and ask.

Out of curiosity is there any way that this sub.domain.com DNS CNAME could break the main domain.com traffic? I dont think it will - I just hate editing DNS records

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No, adding a new DNS entry with its own hostname won’t interfere with other DNS entries.

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Ive made the DNS changes (They recommended a CNAME entry) - and added the sub domain in wpengine.

The subdomain seems to be redirecting to the main domain, but I guess it needs time to propagate?

Thanks for the reassurance

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Do you have any Page Rules set up here?

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So If I enter sub.domain.com it redirects to domain.com

If I enter www.sub.domain.com i get a server not found

Im looking in wpengine domain settings and I can see its calling the sub.domin.com as a “Proxied” domain.

I can also see rules redirectng the domain.com to www.domain.com so ill mirror these settings for the sub domain and see if that fixes things

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Okay so it turns out that now I have the sub.domain.com setup I now need to redirect that using a CNAME entry to sub-domain-com.msgfocus.com

However when I try to enter the details into the fields I get the following error:

An A, AAAA or CNAME record already exists with that host. (Code: 81053)

https://app.adestra.com/doc/page/current/index/admin/domains/delegated-domains#DelegationMethods

Ill keep reading :slight_smile:

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