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Setting up multiple WP sites in a LEMP server

Posted on April 6, 2015

I want to use my LEMP server to host HTML and WP sites. I created my first WP site following this tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-with-nginx-on-ubuntu-14-04, the only thing that I changed is, that I didn’t install the WP on the root, I’ve installed my WP in /var/www/html/webs/wpsite because I will have many WP sites in /myfolder/

So what I’d like to have, is access to the WP site on this way myIP/webs/wpsite until I point the DNS to the domain, but I cant.

Supposedly I should get access to the WP site that I install through that URL, since I configured the nginx block on the below, but anytime that I go to myIP/webs/wpsite it automatically redirect me to the main IP, to the IP of my server, I can’t understand why. Here it is my configuration on sites-available:

server {
        listen 80 default_server;
        listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;

        root /var/www/html/secure/oxygen;
        index index.php index.html index.htm;

        # Make site accessible from http://localhost/
        server_name;

        location / {
                # First attempt to serve request as file, then
                # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
                # try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
                # Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
                # include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
        }

        error_page 404 /404.html;
        error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
        location = /50x.html {
                root /usr/share/nginx/html;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
                try_files $uri =404;
                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                include fastcgi_params;
        }

        # Only for nginx-naxsi used with nginx-naxsi-ui : process denied requests
        #location /RequestDenied {
        #       proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
        #}

        #error_page 404 /404.html;

        # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
        #
        #error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
        #location = /50x.html {
        #       root /usr/share/nginx/html;
        #}
       # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
        #
        location ~ \.php$ {
                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        #       # NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
        #
        #       # With php5-cgi alone:
        #       fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        #       # With php5-fpm:
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                include fastcgi_params;
        }

        # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
        # concurs with nginx's one
        #
        #location ~ /\.ht {
        #       deny all;
        #}
}



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Thanks Affix I’ll have a look to you tutorial, and let you know if I finally make it works.

create different server {} blocks just change the server_name to match the domain you wish to choose. set the root to /var/www/html/webs/wpsite

To access them all though you will need to setup a default server {} block that points to /var/www/html/webs/

That will allow you to use domain based virtual hosts and a single URL to access them all

yes you will need to create subdomains from your Godaddy Control Panel (Unless you setup a Nameserver using bind).

If you need help you just need I’m available through the day until about 10pm BST (UTC +1)

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