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Can't get nginx to run virtual hosts (403 Forbidden - modified root structure)

Question

Posted on June 2, 2015

Nginx

FAQ

CentOS

By cooliojones

Looking for help from someone out there. I’ve searched through a lot of tutorials, and I feel like I’m close to a solution, but haven’t gotten it yet.

I’m running CentOS 7 on a new droplet. I want to run nginx to serve multiple virtual hosts. Here’s the list of commands I used to attempt to get nginx running from beginning to end:

sudo yum install nginx -y
sudo nano /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
	change apache to nginx in this section: Unix user/group of processes
sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
	change worker_processes to 4
	add this under http: server_names_hash_bucket_size  64;
sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/virtual.conf
        this configuration is pasted into the blank file:

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  example.com www.example.com;
    error_log /home/user/public_html/example.com/error.log;

    location / {
        root   /home/user/public_html/example.com;
        index  index.php index.html index.htm;
    }

    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
    location ~ .php$ {
        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        root    /home/user/example.com;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /home/user/public_html/example.com$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
}

mkdir -p /home/user/public_html/example.com
chmod -R 755 /home/user/public_html
nano /home/user/public_html/example.com/index.html
        paste this code in the file:

<html>
  <head>
    <title>domain1.com</title>
  </head>

  <body>
    <h1>domain1.com</h1>
  </body>
</html>

sudo systemctl start nginx && systemctl enable nginx.service

My DNS is pointing to the IP of the server. The issue I’m having is that I continue to get a ‘403 forbidden error’ message when I try to visit the site. After a while the other posts found on Google start to repeat themselves so I’m not getting any new answers that way. Anyone have any ideas as to why this isn’t working?

Can't get nginx to run virtual hosts (403 Forbidden - modified root structure)

Question

Posted on June 2, 2015

Nginx

FAQ

CentOS

By cooliojones

Looking for help from someone out there. I’ve searched through a lot of tutorials, and I feel like I’m close to a solution, but haven’t gotten it yet.

I’m running CentOS 7 on a new droplet. I want to run nginx to serve multiple virtual hosts. Here’s the list of commands I used to attempt to get nginx running from beginning to end:

sudo yum install nginx -y
sudo nano /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
	change apache to nginx in this section: Unix user/group of processes
sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
	change worker_processes to 4
	add this under http: server_names_hash_bucket_size  64;
sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/virtual.conf
        this configuration is pasted into the blank file:

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  example.com www.example.com;
    error_log /home/user/public_html/example.com/error.log;

    location / {
        root   /home/user/public_html/example.com;
        index  index.php index.html index.htm;
    }

    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
    location ~ .php$ {
        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        root    /home/user/example.com;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /home/user/public_html/example.com$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
}

mkdir -p /home/user/public_html/example.com
chmod -R 755 /home/user/public_html
nano /home/user/public_html/example.com/index.html
        paste this code in the file:

<html>
  <head>
    <title>domain1.com</title>
  </head>

  <body>
    <h1>domain1.com</h1>
  </body>
</html>

sudo systemctl start nginx && systemctl enable nginx.service

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