laravel wordpress blog install at blog.example.com how?

I want to install a wordpress blog alongside my laravel website, at the address http://blog.example.com. I have read online examples where wordpress is installed at http://www.example.com/blog and then conditions are added to nginx config file. I understand it would be a lot easier if I install wordpress to http://blog.example.com and do 301 redirects? Could someone explain how to go about doing this? Thanks.

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