Hi
I created a multi install with a single website and was able to do that because there was a working IP address.
Now I have 1 site there however I can’t use the ip address (or can I) to go to the NEW folder for the new site to test.
In previous hosting scenarios I was able to turn on what was called a testing url which gave access to a folder. I tried this in my sites-available block…rewrite ^caribbean-diving.com/newsite$ var/www/newsite.com redirect;
This didn’t work as the old site just 404’d
I have also tried to edit the /sites-available/digitalocean file which as I understand is the default from my one click install of LEMP. So I thought this could be the file the dedicated IP address could root through first…so I pointed the root directive to my new sites folder of that but it didn’t do anything and I still get to my initial website.
How to achieve this? Thanks
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A better option might be to simply create a symbolic link.
A symbolic link is part of your file system (nothing to do with Apache or nginx).
It creates a “virtual” directory which maps to a directory elsewhere in the file system.
You would run this via the command line (make sure the newsite folder doesn’t already exist):
ln -s /var/www/newsite.com /var/www/caribbean-diving.com/newsite
This creates a “vitual” link under /var/www/caribbean-diving.com/newsite which maps to /var/www/newsite.com
Anyone visiting
http://caribbean-diving.com/newsite
will see the contents of/var/www/newsite.com
Out of interest what operating system are you using locally on your own computer?
If you’re using Windows you can edit the file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts and add a line like this:
2.2.2.2 testdomain.com
Replace 2.2.2.2 with the IP address of your droplet.
testdomain.com will then map to your droplet from your local work station, bypassing any external DNS lookup.
Setup a new virtual host under sites-enabled.conf for testdomain.com and away you go.
In my case what seems to have been lacking is a default server and now it seems to be working and what @DigitalCarrot would have got had I posted my server block code…many thanks to you @DigitalCarrot
SO in my default site block I now have this
Vs
Now when I use the IP address remotely I can access what this default site points to…