nginx and apache dont work together

Posted on January 27, 2015

I set up Apache on my VPS after I choosed to use Nginx. I changed the port for Nginx to 8000 but when I go to Nginx page http://95.85.39.84:8000/ I get just Apache welcome page. I shut down Apache so dont understand how can be there. when i go to http://95.85.39.84/ i got :

403 Forbidden nginx/1.6.2

thanks. mike

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mike712366

January 28, 2015

I changed nginx default to: but still the same. at IP and qbfweb.com is the same index.html. really dont understand. when go to http://95.85.39.84:8000/ i get normal apache welcome site.

we have a lot of website on shared hosting and would like to move one by one all to digitalocean. Also I would like to have some localhost on my VPN. And also pushing from my localhost to VPN through capistrano and github. I bit confused if I am right.

server { listen 80;

    root /var/www/qbfweb.com;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    server_name .qbfweb.com;

    location / {
            try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
    }

    error_page 404 /404.html;

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

Greg Raven

January 27, 2015

I have no idea how to make this work, but it’s my understanding that if you create a droplet with a WordPress on 14.04 Application, it installs Nginx as a front end to Apache, and it seems to run really, really fast. You might fire up an instance in a temporary droplet and check the config files to see if those don’t shed some light on the subject.

mike712366

January 29, 2015

can you help somebody ?