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user58859
Asked: 2016-11-22 22:24:26 +0800 CST

NGINX server block configuration for hosting multiple websites on Ubuntu 16.04

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I want to host multiple wordpress websites on a Ubuntu 16.04 (Ubuntu-NGINX-MariaDB-PHP). I don't want to use wordpress multisite.

I followed this guide . Everything is fine but I can host only one site. Whenever I created multiple server block configuration, it starts to show error and NGINX fail to start. I am not getting my config file correct. Here is the config file : 

server {
     listen [::]:80 ipv6only=off;
     server_name abcde.org www.abcde.org;

     root /var/www/abcde;

    # Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
    index index.php     index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

    location / {
        # First attempt to serve request as file, then
        # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
        # try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
    }

            error_page 404 /404.html;
            error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
            location = /50x.html {
                root /usr/share/nginx/html;
        }

     location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
    #
    #   # With php7.0-cgi alone:
        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
    #   # With php7.0-fpm:
    #   fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
     }


     location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
     }
}

If I host only one website, it works fine. But as soon as I host the other website, NGINX fail to start. I use same config for both sites, after changing the server name and root directory.

Kindly guide me for the right configuration for NGINX server blocks.

ubuntu virtualhost nginx wordpress

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Your nginx.config needs something like this line. This is what I do on my server

    include /etc/nginx/enabled-sites/*;

    In that directory you can have one file with many servers, or you can do what I do and have servers grouped by domain.

    File abcde.conf

    server {
  listen 80;
  server_name www.abcde.org;

  root /var/www/home;

  # Any locations you want. PHP example that I use below.
  location ~ \.php$ {
    fastcgi_keep_conn on;
    fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
    fastcgi_pass   php;
    include        fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
  }
} # ends www.abcde.org server

# This server forwards to the www domain
server {
  listen 80;
  server_name abcde.org;
  return 301 https://www.abcde.org$request_uri;
} # ends abcde.org server

    File example.conf

    # server for a completely separate domain
server {
  listen 80;
  server_name www.example.com;

  root /var/www/example;

  # Any locations you want
} # ends www.example.com server

    File default_server.conf

    # This just prevents Nginx picking a random default server if it doesn't
# know which server block to send a request to
server {
  listen      80 default_server;
  server_name _;
  # This means "go away", effectively. You can also forward somewhere
  # or put default_server onto any of your server blocks.
  return      444; 
}
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