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Frank Martin
Asked: 2017-08-11 11:23:16 +0800 CST

How to safely remove www pool and default site from nginx

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As you know when you install nginx, it comes with default pool called www and a default site called default.

How can I safely remove these two? Because I have created a new pool and site and I want to release some resources by deleting these.

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3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Your file locations and service names might be a bit different, but you just need to delete the two configs and reload:

    1. Delete the pool configuration file /etc/php/7.0/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
    2. Delete the default site configuration file /etc/nginx/sites-available/default and its symlink /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
    3. Reload nginx sudo service nginx reload
    4. Reload fpm sudo service php7.0-fpm reload
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  2. You could also leave www.conf as a template for later use:

    1. mv /etc/php/7.0/fpm/pool.d/www.conf /etc/php/7.0/fpm/pool.d/www.conf.template
    2. sudo service php7.0-fpm reload

    This way default config is still present and can be used as a template for other pool configurations. The file itself won't be used to create a php pool as it does not meet the include directive in /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php-fpm.conf:

    include=/etc/php/7.0/fpm/pool.d/*.conf

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  3. If you are looking to remove default ngnix file only and not php pool, then you can follow this answer. I am writing this assuming the server as ubuntu. Files location may be a little different for different machines. You just need to remove default server configuration from sites-available and sites-enabled. Follow these instructions :

    1. Go to sites-enabled by sudo cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled.
    2. Delete the link to default file sudo rm -f default.
    3. Go to sites-available by sudo cd /etc/nginx/sites-available.
    4. Delete the file default by sudo rm -f default.
    5. Reload ngnix to check if everything is alright and make your change to come into effect by sudo nginx -t && nginx -s reload

    If it does not show any error, proves entries done by you have been accepted and you have removed the default server file done by ngnix.

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