Virtual hosting

[Igor Sysoev]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 01:44:58PM +0200, Дилян Палаузов wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> on my server I have several IP-Addresses and for some of them I want to 
> use Nginx to server port 80.  I want to host several different domains. 
>   Let's say A.org and B.org to IP-Address 1.1.1.1:80 and C.org to 
> IP-Address 1.1.1.2:80, while 1.1.1.3:80 shall not be used by Nginx.
> 
> Shall I configure Nginx something like
>    server {
>     listen 1.1.1.1;
>     server_name A.org B.org;
>     if ($host ~ "A.org") {root /A; ... break;}
>     if ($host ~ "B.org") {root /B;... break;}
>    }
>    server {
>     listen 1.1.1.2;
>     server_name C.org;
>    }
> or is there a way to configure three different server{}s?
>    server { server_name A.org; }
>    server { server_name B.org; }
>    server { server_name C.org; listen 1.1.1.2; }
> 
> In the former form, I cannot use directly "root /A;" in if ().
> 
> In the latter form, I cannot use for A.org and B.org listen 1.1.1.1, as 
> Nginx says it cannot bind twice IP1.1.1.1 (it can bind to it for A, but 
> since the socket is already occupied, it cannot bind for for B.org}.

    server { listen 1.1.1.1; server_name A.org; }
    server { listen 1.1.1.1; server_name B.org; }
    server { listen 1.1.1.2; server_name C.org; }

> Moreover, as the Nginx module documentation is available both trough 
> wiki.nginx.org (wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule) and 
> http://www.nginx.org/en/docs/, I would like to ask which is the 
> reference documentation (and what is the point to have the documentation 
> on two different places -- e.g. why isn't the wiki enough).

The right place is http://www.nginx.org/en/docs/
Until this year the only English documentation was in wiki,
but the wiki contains errors and inaccurancies.


-- 
Igor Sysoev