MultipleStaticWebOnASingleServer.md

Setting up multiple static websites on a single server

In this project, I set up multiple static websites on a single server using Nginx Virtual host technique by following steps:

• Created two subdomains (first.mdsahil.tech & second.mdsahil.tech) of a domain (mdsahil.tech) for two diffrent web sites.
• Spinned up an ubuntu server on AWS EC2 by following steps:

  • Created a security group:

    aws ec2 create-security-group \
      --group-name demo-sg \
      --description "AWS ec2 CLI Demo SG" \
      --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=security-group,Tags=[{Key=Name,Value=demo-sg}]' \
      --vpc-id "VPC_ID"

  • Added inbound rules to the security group demo-sg:

    aws ec2 authorize-security-group-ingress \
      --group-id "sg-07570e17ab8331f13" \
      --protocol tcp \
      --port 22 \
      --cidr "0.0.0.0/0"

  • Created an EC2 instance with AMI for ubuntu 20.04:

    aws ec2 run-instances \
      --image-id ami-0d70546e43a941d70 \
      --count 1 \
      --instance-type t2.micro \
      --key-name bibin-server \
      --security-group-ids sg-07570e17ab8331f13 \
      --subnet-id subnet-00b5ede5e160caa59 \
      --block-device-mappings "[{\"DeviceName\":\"/dev/sdf\",\"Ebs\":{\"VolumeSize\":30,\"DeleteOnTermination\":false}}]" \
      --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=instance,Tags=[{Key=Name,Value=demo-server}]' 'ResourceType=volume,Tags=[{Key=Name,Value=demo-server-disk}]'

• Installed Nginx on the ubuntu server.
• Obtained an SSL certificate for a wildcard domain *.mdsahil.tech
• Configured Nginx to host multiple static websites with the SSL certificate for *.mdsahil.tech by following steps:

  • Created two vitual hosts for two diffrent static web sites in the directory /etc/nginx/conf.d

    # First Virtual host
    server {
       listen 443 ssl;
    
       root /var/www/first.mdsahil.tech/html;
       index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
       
       ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/certs/wild_mdsahil_tech_chain.crt;
       ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/private/mdsahil_tech.key;
    
       server_name first.mdsahil.tech www.first.mdsahil.tech;
    
       location / {
               try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
       }
    }
    

    # Second Virtual host
    server {
       listen 443 ssl;
    
       root /var/www/second.mdsahil.tech/html;
       index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
       
       ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/certs/wild_mdsahil_tech_chain.crt;
       ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/private/mdsahil_tech.key;
    
       server_name second.mdsahil.tech www.second.mdsahil.tech;
    
       location / {
               try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
       }
    }
    

• Added the IP address of the server to two sub-domains first.mdsahil.tech & second.mdsahil.tech of a domain *.mdsahil.tech as A Record.

Then both of websites were accessible.