trouble configuring nginx on ec2 instance for Magento

Question

I'm trying to install Magento 1.9 on a Amazon EC2 server which is running NGINX & HHVM. I've got HHVM & NGINX running and when I put the EC2 Serers's IP in the URL I get the NGINX welcome screen displayed but when I put in the url to my Magento app (i.e. http://54.???.??.???/dev-magento) I get a 404 error.

I've put Magento in /var/www/dev-magento rather than /usr/share/nginx/html/. I intend to have a staging-magento site also which is why I'm not just dropping Magento into /usr/share/nginx/html/.

I've set up the /etc/www/ directory with

sudo chown www-data:www-data * -R
sudo usermod -a -G www-data ubuntu

I've also put created an nginx configuration file for the dev-magento site in /etc/nginx/sites-available.dev-magento

server {
    # Listen on port 80 as well as post 443 for SSL connections.
    listen 80;
    #listen 443 default ssl;

    server_name 54.???.??.???/dev-magento;

    # Specify path to your SSL certificates.
   #ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/certificates/yourcertificate.crt;
    #ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/certificates/yourcertificate.key;

    # Path to the files in which you wish to
    # store your access and error logs.
    #access_log /path/to/your/logs/access_log;
    #error_log /path/to/your/logs/error_log;

    # If the site is accessed via mydomain.com
    # automatically redirect to www.magento.localhost.com.
    #if ($host = 'dev-magento' ) {
        #rewrite ^/(.*)$ http://www.dev-magento/$1permanent;
   #}

    root /var/www/dev-magento/;

    location / {
        index index.html index.php;
        try_files $uri $uri/ @handler;
    }

    # Deny access to specific directories no one
    # in particular needs access to anyways.
    location /app/ { deny all; }
    location /includes/ { deny all; }
    location /lib/ { deny all; }
    location /media/downloadable/ { deny all; }
    location /pkginfo/ { deny all; }
    location /report/config.xml { deny all; }
    location /var/ { deny all; }

    # Allow only those who have a login name and password
    # to view the export folder. Refer to /etc/nginx/htpassword.
    #location /var/export/ {
    #    auth_basic "Restricted";
    #    auth_basic_user_file htpasswd;
    #    autoindex on;
    #}

    # Deny all attempts to access hidden files
    # such as .htaccess, .htpasswd, etc...
    location ~ /\. {
         deny all;
         access_log off;
         log_not_found off;
    }

    # This redirect is added so to use Magentos
    # common front handler when handling incoming URLs.
    location @handler {
        rewrite / /index.php;
    }

    # Forward paths such as /js/index.php/x.js
    # to their relevant handler.
    location ~ .php/ {
        rewrite ^(.*.php)/ $1 last;
    }

    # Handle the exectution of .php files.
    location ~ .php$ {
        if (!-e $request_filename) {
            rewrite / /index.php last;
        }
        expires off;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        #fastcgi_param HTTPS $fastcgi_https;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param MAGE_RUN_CODE default;
        fastcgi_param MAGE_RUN_TYPE store;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
}

After which I ran:

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/dev-magento /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
sudo service nginx restart
sudo service hhvm restart

However I'm still getting a 404 page when I go to 54.???.??.???/dev-magento.

I think I must be missing something pretty obvhious as I'm very new to AWS & NGINX configurations.

Answer 1

I was able to fix this by I changing the server name in my nginx configuration file to server_name dev-magento; and then adding 54.???.??.??? dev-magento to my local machines /etc/hosts file.