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alfish
Asked: 2012-09-11 11:02:50 +0800 CST

How to define two servers on different IPs in nginx?

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Here is the problem: I have two domains which have pointed to two available IPs on a server. Say:

siteone.com pointed to 1.2.3.4 sitetwo.com pointed to 1.2.3.5

What I did to configure nginx vhosts was to put

server {
        listen    site1.com:80; # 
        server_name   site1.com www.site1.com;

on vhost1 file and

server {
        listen    site2.com:80; # 
        server_name   site2.com www.site2.com;

on a (separate) vhost2 file. The two vhost files are exact replicates expect the site1 and site2 paths, of course. And vhost1 is working well on its own.

However after restarting nginx I get this error:

Restarting nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok [emerg]: bind() to 1.2.3.5:80 failed (99: Cannot assign requested address) configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed

When I put

server {
        listen   *:80; # 
        server_name   site2.com www.site2.com;

On site2 vhost, the nginx restarts without error but does not render pages on site2 path.

I'm confused and appreciate your help.

nginx

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Try this:

    server {
    listen    1.2.3.4:80; # 
    server_name   site1.com www.site1.com;
    ...
}

server {
    listen    1.2.3.5:80; # 
    server_name   site2.com www.site2.com;
    ...
}
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