Epic: Amazon EC2 nginx virtual hosts configuration

Firts of all you should change DNS configuration. Do it in the beginning of process because some providers has some time to update configuration on theirs servers.
We'll create 2 vhosts:

test.example.com
test2.example.com

Go to your's DNS config panel and add 2 CNAME records with ec2 instance address ( same for both)

ec2-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX.compute-1.amazonaws.com

yum install nginx

see version (for future troubleshooting, if it ocuur)

nginx -v

Create 2 vhosts folder tructures.

cd /var/
mkdir www
cd www/

Folder for each vhost

mkdir test.example.com
mkdir test2.example.com
cd test.example.com/
mkdir logs
mkdir web
mcedit web/index.html

Create simple html page:

<html>
<body>test.example.com</body>
</html>

cd ..
cd test2.example.com/
mkdir logs
mkdir web
mcedit web/index.html

Content for vhost 2

<html>
<body>test2.example.com</body>
</html>

Change web root owner

chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www

Change nginx setting to allow 2 vhost's with www. alias for each of them

cd /etc/nginx/conf.d/
mcedit virtual.conf

Add this lines to virtual.conf:


index index.htm index.html index.php;


#
# test.example.com

#
server {
  listen 80;
  server_name www.example.com;
  rewrite ^ $scheme://test.example.com$request_uri? permanent;
}
server {
  listen 80;
  server_name test.example.com;
  access_log  /var/www/test.example.com/logs/access.log;
  error_log   /var/www/test.example.com/logs/error.log;
  root /var/www/test.example.com/web;
}

#
# test2.example.com
#

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name www.test2.example.com;
  rewrite ^ $scheme://test2.example.com$request_uri? permanent;
}
server {
  listen 80;
  server_name test2.example.com;
  access_log  /var/www/test2.example.com/logs/access.log;
  error_log   /var/www/test2.example.com/logs/error.log;
  root /var/www/test2.example.com/web;
}

Restart nginx:

service nginx restart

Open in browser http://test.example.com and test2.example.com . Each page has different content.

Monday, April 9, 2012

Amazon EC2 nginx virtual hosts configuration