Hi,
I have deployed a Django app that is serving a REST API on Ubuntu 14.04 through Nginx. Everything works fine when I visit XX.XXX.XXX.XXX/example/api.json.
However, I have bought my own domain and followed the guide to connect it to my droplet, and I have some problems. When I go to mydomain.com I get the “Welcome to nginx” message, and if I go to mydomain.com/example.api.json, I get a 404 Not Found | nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu).
What have I done wrong, and how can I start to look for bugs?
Thanks, Christian
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I solved it. I had to add the domain under the settings for nginx, where I previously had the IP. So if anyone else has this problem, type “sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/your_project” and add the domain names after “server_name” (probably both www.example.com and example.com).
Just for reference, you’ll want to setup a server block for each domain that you point to the Droplet.
So if you have domain01.com, domain02.com, etc, you’ll want to setup a new file for each site like so:
/ect/nginx/sites-available/domain01.com.conf
/etc/nginx/sites-available/domain02.com.conf
etc
Any configuration changes or additions requires that NGINX be reloaded or restarted:
service nginx reload
service nginx restart
or if you’re server is using systemctl:
systemctl reload nginx
systemctl restart nginx
If you run in to any issues, you can check the error log which should be located at:
/var/log/nginx/error.log
You can tail the login to pull just a few lines from it – for example:
tail -20 /var/log/nginx/error.log
The above will pull the last 20 lines from the error log.
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