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Paul
Asked: 2013-04-21 23:19:50 +0800 CST

How to serve Nginx using just a Rackspace server IP address?

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I'm setting up a server on Rackspace for migrating an existing website to so I can have everything working before changing the DNS entry.

I had no problems getting the server to work at the IP address using the default setup. I then copied the original sites-available file, symlinked to it in sites-enabled, and copied the original index.html to a new folder. I set the sites-available root to the new folder and did chown -R www-data:www-data, chmod 775 on the folder, and chmod 664 on the file. After which I restarted Nginx.

When I bring up the IP address of the site, I get 404 Not Found.

Here is sites-available:

server {
    listen [::]:80 default_server;
    root /var/www/example.com/public/;
    index index.html index.htm;        
    server_name localhost;
    location / {
            try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
       }
}
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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Ever the humbling experience, Linux is. Someone on the nginx mailing list kindly pointed out that I should check permissions of /var/www/, and low and behold, I had accidentally entered the wrong code when I did chmod on /var/www/. Everything works properly now. On with the migration...

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  2. The problem I see straight away is that you have a tailing slash on the root option.

    Change /var/www/example.com/public/

    Change to: /var/www/example.com/public

    Additionally if you don't have any luck with the above try the below code, this gets rid of the localhost element and hard sets the domain that you want to use.

    server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  your-domain.com www.yourdomain.com;
    root /var/www/example.com/public;
    index index.html index.htm;        
    location / { }
    error_page   404      /404x.html;
}
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