You’ll get to make Nginx multisite setup on your local machine. Which further can be expanded to on your live servers !

Website default configurations which are used by Nginx to point which site to access and where the root of that website resides at /etc/nginx/sites-available/default who’s symlink is created at /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/.

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Creating two websites to test

Run the following command to create Index files and inserting some dummy text inside them.

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mkdir /var/www/html/one.test/public_html/ &&
touch /var/www/html/one.test/public_html/index.html &&
echo "one.test" > /var/www/html/one.test/public_html/index.html &&
mkdir /var/www/html/two.test/public_html/ &&
touch /var/www/html/two.test/public_html/index.html &&
echo "two.test" > /var/www/html/two.test/public_html/index.html

This will create two directories (here websites) named one.test and two.test and the same names as their respective content.

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Configure the default file

Now we have to tell Nginx that on request which directory to consider.

For this replace the content of default file with the below code.

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server {
        listen 80;
        listen [::]:80;

        root /var/www/html/one.test/public_html/;

        index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

        server_name one.test;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }
}
server {
        listen 80 ;
        listen [::]:80 ;

        root /var/www/html/two.test/public_html/;

        index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

        server_name two.test;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }
}

The best way to learn is explore on your own.
So please try to fetch the things up on your own. Just Google them out.

Now restart Nginx with sudo service nginx restart .

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Configure your /etc/hosts list

I am using a virtual machine to setup all of these. This virtual machine is runnig at 192.168.33.78 IP address inside my host machine .

You can change it according to your requirements.

Add the following line to /etc/hosts file.

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192.168.33.78 one.test two.test

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That’s it ! Go to your browser and hit any of one.test or two.test .