Setup vps with nginx and add multiple website

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Hi guys, i relative new to this but someone can help me configure a ubuntu 20.04 vps with nginx host multiple website please?First i want to configure it to acces ip_adress/website1 and ip_adress/website2 so i can move/duplicate the websites and then to redirect the domain too after i finish configure all.I tryed many tutorials but didn’t manage to get it done. All i have managed to do is to add website accesed when i type the ip.Thanks

KFSys · Accepted Answer

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

KFSys · Answer

Hi @rober7h , Once you are done with the testing and you want to make your websites load with different domains, you’ll need to add configuration files for each website in the /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ folder. Luckily, DigitalOcean has a pretty great tutorial on how you can do that. You can check that here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-nginx-on-ubuntu-20-04 Regards,KFSys

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