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I have my production site set up and now I'm trying to setup a dev/staging site to run live tests in.

I'm having issues pointing my subdomain to the correct root path on my Laravel app.

I need the following:

• dev.example.com to point to root /var/www/dev/public;
  


• example.com and www.example.com to point to root /var/www/laravel/public;


• currently everything is going to /var/www/laravel/public
  

Server:

• Ubuntu 18.10 x64


• Nginx

I have a domain example.com and I made a subdomain called dev.example.com
each reference to the domain is in my SSL Cert via certbot/LetsEncrypt. www.example.com, example.com and dev.example.com

DNS for Subdomain:

A (Record) | dev (Name) | 140.xx.xx.xx (Data)

I have 2 folders located here:

• /var/www/laravel/public (My Main Production site)


• /var/www/dev/public (My Development Site)

In sites-available /etc/nginx/sites-available I have the default file with the following configurations.

(I've tried multiple variation of this, but this is where I left off)

 server 

 root /var/www/laravel/public;

 index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

 server_name example.com www.example.com dev.example.com;

 location / 
 try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
 client_max_body_size 200M;
 

 location ~ .php$ 
 include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
 fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
 

 location ~ /.ht 
 deny all;
 

 listen [::]:443 ssl ipv6only=on; # managed by Certbot
 listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
 ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
 ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
 include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
 ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot



# Virtual Host configuration for example.com

server 

 if ($host = dev.example.com) 
 return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
 # managed by Certbot

 listen 80;
 listen [::]:80;
 server_name dev.example.com;
 root /var/www/dev/public;
 return 404; # managed by Certbot



server 

 if ($host = www.example.com) 
 return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
 # managed by Certbot

 listen 80;
 listen [::]:80;
 server_name www.example.com;
 return 404; # managed by Certbot



server 

 if ($host = example.com) 
 return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
 # managed by Certbot

 listen 80 default_server;
 listen [::]:80;
 server_name example.com;
 return 404; # managed by Certbot

Again...

• I need dev.example.com to point to root /var/www/dev/public;




• I need example.com and www.example.com to point to root /var/www/laravel/public;

Any help in figuring this out would be appreciated.