By fschwiet
I am learning to use digital ocean. I have the following NGINX rule created:
server {
listen asimplereader.com:80;
location ~ ^/ {
proxy_pass http://localhost:8081;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
}
}
When I modify my hosts file to point asimplereader.com to my digital ocean VM (at 162.243.199.7) NGinx doesn’t apply the rule and the page 404s. If I change the rule to listen to *:80 instead of asimplereader.com:80, then the rule starts working.
Why is it not allowing me to use the hostname?
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