Setup vps with nginx and add multiple website

Hi @rober7h,

When you install Nginx you get a default file which loads Nginx on your Droplet’s IP address. This file can be found here:

/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

In order to add two new websites to load like - XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/website1 and XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/website2 where XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is your IP address. First to make sure which is the root folder from which your file is loading files execute the following

grep root /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

You’ll get a result like this:

root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-nyc1-01:/etc/nginx/sites-enabled# grep root default
        root /var/www/html;

This means your root folder is /var/www/html. In that folder create the folders for your websites like so:

root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-nyc1-01:/etc/nginx/sites-enabled# cd /var/www/html
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-nyc1-01:/var/www/html# mkdir -p {website1,website2}
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-nyc1-01:/var/www/html# ls -lah
total 20K
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Apr  1 06:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Apr  1 06:51 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  612 Apr  1 06:51 index.nginx-debian.html
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Apr  1 06:56 website1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Apr  1 06:56 website2
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-nyc1-01:/var/www/html#

Now inside those two folders create a simple index.html file like so

root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-nyc1-01:/var/www/html# echo 'Test website1' > /var/www/html/website1/index.html
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-nyc1-01:/var/www/html# echo 'Test website2' > /var/www/html/website2/index.html

The above commands will just add the text ‘Test website1’ or ‘Test website2’ into an index.html file in the location /var/www/html/website[1,2]/index.html.

Now load your websites like so XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/website1 and XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/website2 where XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is your IP address.

That’s it, you are ready to go.

Regards, KFSys