How To Set Up Nginx Server Blocks (Virtual Hosts) on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

This is great. Thank you!

Great tutorial, very thorough - thanks!

Good article - just one nit-picky thing:

sudo service nginx restart is perfectly valid, but if you have a busy site, you might drop a couple of connections.

Safer, cleaner (and easier!) is to follow this tip I’ve been using since I found it on stackoverflow, which comes in very useful if you’re making lots of changes or experimenting and tweaking:

alias n='/etc/init.d/nginx configtest && sudo /etc/init.d/nginx reload'

from then on, just hit n and enter. Instance new config, tested and reloaded if it’s valid.

If you like the alias, just

sudo nano ~/.bash_aliases

add that alias line following the correct format and then

source ~/.bash_aliases

so you won’t need to reload the shell.

(I won’t delve into the whole /var/www vs /usr/share/nginx/html debate because I’m still not decided which is correct! )

Like a charm. Thanks!

Awesome, thanks!!

Hey, this worked perfectly with my first two test domains, but for some reason once I moved my actual domain in it’s pointing to one of the test domains rather than to its own folder even though I followed the exact same steps. Any idea why?

Thanks!

@jcalifa: Could you post your Nginx configurations on a pastebin? That would make it much easier to help you.

And how i redirect www.domain.com to domain.com in this config file of a domains?

@gugaalves: Add a new virtualhost with the following config:

server {
 listen 80;
 server_name www.domain.com;

 return 301 http://domain.com$request_uri;
}

and restart nginx.

I found that the line

server_names_hash_bucket_size: 64;

Caused and ‘unknown directive’ error when starting nginx and has to remove the colon for it to work:

server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;

Also, this line did not exist to be un-commented as descrived above, so you add it inside the http area:

http {
 server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;

...

}