By Juxtapo
Hey,
I’m setting up a forum (NodeBB to be exact) on my Ubuntu 14.04 vps and have it up on example.com:4567. How would I go about routing this to forums.example.com using nginx? Here’s what I have for my DNS:
$ORIGIN example.com.
$TTL 1800
example.com. IN SOA ns1.digitalocean.com. hostmaster.example.com. 000000000 00000 0000 000000 0000
example.com. 1800 IN NS ns1.digitalocean.com.
example.com. 1800 IN NS ns2.digitalocean.com.
example.com. 1800 IN NS ns3.digitalocean.com.
example.com. 1800 IN A 1.1.1.1
www.example.com. 1800 IN CNAME example.com.
*.example.com. 1800 IN CNAME example.com.
forums.example.com. 1800 IN CNAME example.com.
www.forums.example.com. 1800 IN CNAME forums.example.com.
I have no clue what to use in my nginx config. I tried just doing a basic listen on port 4567 with a new sites-enabled config (as if it were a completely different domain) but forums.example.com would still just redirect to example.com.
Thanks!
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This should do the trick:
server {
listen 80;
server_name sub.example.org
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:4567;
}
}
This defines a server listening at port 80 on the subdomain sub.example.org proxying requests to the server running at port 4567 on localhost. Be sure to restart nginx after you make the change:
service nginx restart
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