How to set multiple domain names on 1 nginx server ?

Level 28

Have you edited the /etc/hosts file on your local machine?

In that case you would try to access the page on IP 127.0.0.3 (which I guess your server doesn't have :)). You can skip that step. With it you tell the machine "for this URL always use that IP" which you don't want to do.

Level 8

On my local server in my /etc/hosts I have a line :

127.0.0.3       local-tasks.com

as I use appache with several my php apps. How to resalve this issue ?

Level 8

Searching in net I found hint to edit in /etc/hosts new line

ec2-NN-NN-NN-NN.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com   demo1.myaccount-apps.tk;

where demo1.myaccount-apps.tk - my domain created at freenom and ec2-NN-NN-NN-NN.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com - my aws account, I got "Welcome to nginx!" greeting page by it

and in /etc/nginx/sites-available/votes.com defined:

server_name demo1.myaccount-apps.tk;

but that did not help...

Level 8

I cleared log files and restarted php and nginx

running

curl http://demo1.myaccount-apps.tk/

at server's console I got :

...
...
    <body class="antialiased font-sans">
        <div class="md:flex min-h-screen">
            <div class="w-full md:w-1/2 bg-white flex items-center justify-center">
                <div class="max-w-sm m-8">
                    <div class="text-black text-5xl md:text-15xl font-black">
                        404                    </div>

                    <div class="w-16 h-1 bg-purple-light my-3 md:my-6"></div>

                    <p class="text-grey-darker text-2xl md:text-3xl font-light mb-8 leading-normal">
                        Sorry, the page you are looking for could not be found.                    </p>

                    <a href="http://demo1.myaccount-apps.tk">
                        <button class="bg-transparent text-grey-darkest font-bold uppercase tracking-wide py-3 px-6 border-2 border-grey-light hover:border-grey rounded-lg">
                            Go Home
                        </button>
                    </a>
                </div>
            </div>

            <div class="relative pb-full md:flex md:pb-0 md:min-h-screen w-full md:w-1/2">
                <div style="background-image: url(http://demo1.myaccount-apps.tk/svg/404.svg);" class="absolute pin bg-cover bg-no-repeat md:bg-left lg:bg-center">
</div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </body>
...
...

404 error ruuning demo1.myaccount-apps.tk at browser.

Files /var/log/nginx/access.log and /var/log/nginx/error.log are empty File /var/log/php7.2-fpm.log has:

20-Mar-2019 04:30:05] NOTICE: Terminating ...
[20-Mar-2019 04:30:05] NOTICE: exiting, bye-bye!
[20-Mar-2019 04:30:05] NOTICE: fpm is running, pid 4304
[20-Mar-2019 04:30:05] NOTICE: ready to handle connections
[20-Mar-2019 04:30:05] NOTICE: systemd monitor interval set to 10000ms

Any ideas ?

Level 16

Hi.

I'm running a server on AWS with multiple domains. What I did was set up a hosted zone in Route 53 in AWS with the domain pointing to correct IP. I have several sub-domains also set up there pointing to different server blocks.

Then i just followed this guide: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-nginx-server-blocks-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-16-04

Worked like a charm!

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Level 8

Thank you for your feedback! As I am new in AWS, could you please explain what is "hosted zone in Route 53" Is it service available with my free account?

Level 16

You find Route 53 here: https://console.aws.amazon.com/route53/home

Thats where you do the DNS management. When you are satisfied with your domains and all pointing to your server, then you can set up the server blocks from the digital ocean guide i posted in my last reply.

Another option if you dont have domain is to set up NGINX to listen to different ports,

example of your url ec2-NN-NN-NN-NN.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com:81

Then your request gets channeled to a specific port on the server that NGINX listens to like port 81. You might have to update your AWS Security Groups to allow communication on that port if you do it this way.

Cruorzy

Level 14

Does you nginx.conf include include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*; at all?

Level 8

@CRUORZY - Yes I wrote about it in first topic ; check that /etc/nginx/nginx.conf has links to /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/:

user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
include /etc/nginx/modules-enabled/*.conf;

events {
        worker_connections 768;
        # multi_accept on;
}

http {

        ...
        include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
        include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}

dO YOU MEAN THIS ?

Level 16

@MSTDMSTD - Did you get this to work?

Level 8

@ETTORE - I try first method mentioned by you and I created “sn.votes.demo.org” and I see https://prnt.sc/n1166s with domain names name servers at right.

By documentation “How To Set Up Nginx Server Blocks (Virtual Hosts) on Ubuntu 16.04” in your link looks like domain name “nsn.votes.demo.org” I created must be used instead of “example.com” in this article. Is it so ?

Level 16

Yes, and did you create the record set inside that hosted zone, and make them point to your server? Every record is the url you want to point to you server.

Then you just set up normal serverblocks like described in that guide ;) You use the url from the records you have created inside the server block file in the folder: sites-available/*