#Set up nginx virtual host on Ubuntu 14.04
In this example, we will create a website called devops.com and create site to publish "Hello World!"
We are assuming you have nginx installed. If not, follow the steps here to install nginx .
We want to make the necessary directories in /var/www folder.
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/devops.com/httpdocs
And we want to write Hello world! in Index.html file.
sudo echo "Hello World!" > /var/www.devops.com/httpdocs/index.html
Next is to set up proper file permissions, so that Nginx web server can access it. This is with the assumption that we are running Nginx with its default user www-data.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/devops.com
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/devops.com
Now we need to create virtual host configuration file for our domain.
sudo cp /etc/nginx/sites-available/default /etc/nginx/sites-available/devops.com.conf
And we need to edit the new virtual host configuration file.
In the end, ignoring the commented out lines, we should have something like this -
server {
listen 80;
root /var/www/devops.com/httpdocs;
index index.html index.htm;
server_name devops.com www.devops.com;
}
Now we need to enable our server blocks by creating symbolic links from these files to the sites-enabled directory, which Nginx reads from during startup.
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/devops.com.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/devops.com.conf
Now let us check that there were no errors in our nginx configuration by doing nginx -t.
You should see this if there are no errors.
nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful
Now you can restart nginx service using the following command -
sudo service nginx restart
Now go to your computer's /etc/hosts file to add your domain to route to your nginx ip address.
sudo vi /etc/hosts
Add this entry -
xx.xx.xx.xx devops.com
xx.xx.xx.xx is your nginx ip address.
Now you can visit devops.com and you will see the Hello World.