Question
Can we host multiple websites in nginx at localhost?
- Posted on August 1, 2013
Asked by dzulfriday
I have a general question about nginx
Let say you don’t have a domain first, but you already fired up your droplets. You already success setup Nginx in your droplet.
But your plan is to host 2 website in the droplet So the first website is done, assuming the default nginx page is the first website.
Now, how can i host the second website? Remember for now i still dont have the domains. What to put in the nginx configuration (server_name) for the second website?
For the first website, i already use “server_name localhost;”
What sould i put for the second website?
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I prefer creating separate virtualhosts for each app and setting server_name to app_name.dev; <br> <br>Edit your /etc/hosts file and add the following line: <br>127.0.0.1 app1.dev app2.dev etc.dev; <br> <br>You should be able to access your apps by browsing to http://app_name.dev
@Dzulhelmi: Create a second virtualhost for the second app/website, and set its server_name to e.g. app1.dev: <br> <br>https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-nginx-virtual-hosts-server-blocks-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts--3
Kamal, <br> <br>I dont get it. Let say currently my localhost already have one website. Which is can be opened by http://localhost <br> <br>And right now i want to add one more website since nginx can serve more than one website, ok let say i edit my hosts file like what you wrote there. <br> <br>Now in my nginx configuration for this second website, what should i put for the server_name? <br>Since the localhost is already pointing the default first website?