Hey,
I know the title sounds generic, but please bare with me.
I've gotten myself into a confusing net of different providers. What do I mean?
First I've registered a domain and shared hosting with eleven2. (I realize that discourse will be impossible to install on this, but maybe we can make use of this later on).
- I've registered a domain and only a domain with namecheap, well, because it's cheap.
- I've registered for AWS EC2, launched an instance (Ubuntu 16.04) and followed the installation guide for discourse.
- Sure enough, I need an E-Mail provider. I went with sparkpost. In hindsight, Mailgun might've been better as was suggested here in this forum.
- I now want to connect the namecheap domain with sparkpost. This hasn't been successful. Maybe I have to wait the 24-48 hours.
However, discourse is supposed to be running on a subdomain: discourse.ndomain.co. As far as I know, I cannot create an email address with a subdomain with namecheap when only hosting the domain.
What is suggested by sparkpost is, that I have to register the subdomain where I want to send emails from: discourse.ndomain.co and hence abuse@discourse.ndomain.co. Namecheap seems to make this impossible. Or this contingent? Could I just register with the actual domain: ndomain.co. (This may already be a major point of my confusion)
The discourse installation also requires the hostdomain, which I've entered as discourse.ndomain.com.
However, the whole thing is launched in an AWS EC2 instance.
I don't know how to tie the threads together. I'm lost in a web of errors and dead ends.
Maybe I could just utilize the domain registered with eleven2? (At least I'd have some cPanel options there).
So I would install discourse, link it to abuse@edomain.com (eleven2's domain) and still have the namecheap DNS point at the AWS EC2 instance? (which works; it's just the E-Mail issue)
This is confusing, My explication is confusing, too. Forgive me. Maybe you can hit me over the head with a stop sign and point out a different route I could try to get discourse running.
What I want is this: Make discourse accessible under subdomain.ndomain.co, running on the AWS EC2 instance with emails distributed via sparkpost (or mailgun, if switching is recommended).
I'm trying to set this up for an open source, nonprofit project. There's no money going to come back in, which is why I want to keep the costs as low as possible. Else I might've gone with digital ocean right off the bat~