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  1. Creating web directory for each host

    Code Block
    $ sudo mkdir -p /var/www/html/example.com/public_html

#The above directory is owned by root user. We need to change the ownership to the regular user
$ sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/html/example.com/public_html
$ sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/
#Here the $USER refers to you, the currently logged in user

  2. Creating demo page for each Host

    Code Block
    $ sudo nano /var/www/html/example.com/public_html/index.html

  3. Add the following lines

    Code Block
    <html>
 <head>
 <title>www.example.com</title>
 </head>
 <body>
 <h1>Hello! this page is to test for the static website</h1>
 </body>
</html>

  4. Create configuration file for each host

    Code Block
    languageactionscript3
    $ sudo cp /etc/nginx/sites-available/default /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com.conf
$ sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com.conf

output:
# Default server configuration
#
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;

# SSL configuration
#
# listen 443 ssl default_server;
# listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
#
# Note: You should disable gzip for SSL traffic.
# See: https://bugs.debian.org/773332
#
# Read up on ssl_ciphers to ensure a secure configuration.
# See: https://bugs.debian.org/765782
#
# Self signed certs generated by the ssl-cert package
# Don't use them in a production server!
#
# include snippets/snakeoil.conf;

root /var/www/html/example.com/public_html;

# Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

server_name example.com www.example.com;

location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}

#Edit line 27 and 32 accordingly in your terminal

  5. Enable Nginx Server block

    Code Block
    $ sudo rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
$ sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
$ sudo systemctl restart nginx

  6. Test Nginx Server block

    Code Block
    $ sudo nano /etc/hosts

#Add all your virtual domain like below.
output: 
[...]
192.168.225.24   example.com
[...]

#we do this beacuse this is your domain and we'll need to point it to the localhost server

The We’re working on a script that will do all of this manual work for you → script.sh (still to come) please configure manually for now, we are working on automating this process by writing a simple script. It should be available soonn soon

to execute this

  1. Name it something like: script.sh.

  2. Make it executable: sudo chmod 755 script.sh

  3. Run it: sudo ./script.sh example.com

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