Setup of Nginx Vhost

Introduction

This is an ancient way of setting up Vhost with nginx. As we have Chef to automate everything. But before a kickoff with automation using chef, it’s crucial to interpret our problem statement by dealing with it manually.

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Problem Statement

NGINX is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Install nginx manually using package manager, and configure virtual host for blog.opstree.com, chef.opstree.com.

Prerequisites

This exercise considers that you have a basic understanding of Git, and Vagrant. This blog deal with centos7.

Install Nginx

Clone our github repository and spin up a bare centos7 vagrant machine.

$ git clone git@github.com :OpsTree/Chef.git

Go to nginxVhost directory.

$ cd Chef/centos/nginxVhost

This directory have a Vagrantfile. Which can initiate a centos7 vagrant box with 512mb ram.

$ cat Vagrantfile

This file update and install some basic tools in your vagrant machine using vagrant shell provisioning.

Launch new vagrant machine and login into it via ssh.

$ vagrant up

$ vagrant ssh

Add nginx repo

As nginx is not available in default list of centos7, we add nginx repo to it.

$ sudo yum install -y epel-release

Install nginx

Install nginx using package manager “yum”.

$ sudo yum install -y nginx

Start nginx

Nginx do not start on its own. Type following to start it.

$ sudo service nginx start

Setup Vhost

Let’s go ahead with our problem statement of setting up vhost with nginx. This leads some dull steps to serve our webpages with blog.opstree.com and chef.opstree.com.