How To Set Up nginx Virtual Hosts

1) Install the following pagkage

sudo apt-get install nginx

2) Create New Directory and grant permissions

sudo mkdir -p /var/www/example.com/public_html

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/example.com/public_html

sudo chmod 755 /var/www

3) create an index page

sudo nano /var/www/example.com/public_html/index.html

<html>
  <head>
    <title>www.xyz.com</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Test Page</h1>
  </body>
</html>

4) Create virtual host

sudo cp /etc/nginx/sites-available/default /etc/nginx/sites-available/xyz.com

 sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/xyz.com

5 ) We need to make a couple of changes in these few lines:

 server {
        listen   80;
        root /var/www/xyz.com/public_html;
        index index.html index.htm;

        server_name xyz.com;
}

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/xyz.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/xyz.comsudo

6) Restart the service

sudo service nginx restart

vim /etc/hosts

#Virtual Hosts 
x.x.x.x    www.xyz.com