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Reputation: 36267

Testing nginx without domain name

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I'm working through https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-serve-django-applications-with-uwsgi-and-nginx-on-ubuntu-16-04 . I've reached the end of the tut and started both uwsgi and nginx as directed. I have been able to get all steps working including uwsgi as far as I am aware.

My test django site is in /home/deploy/sample as in the screenshot

If I 

 sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/sample

I see:

server {
listen 80;
server_name sample.com www.sample.com;

location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location /static/ {
    root /home/deploy/sample;
}

location / {
    include         uwsgi_params;
    uwsgi_pass      unix:/run/uwsgi/sample.sock;
}
}

Under "Install and Configure Nginx as a Reverse Proxy" the article states:

Inside, we can start our server block by indicating the port number and domain name where our first project should be accessible. We'll assume that you have a domain name for each:

I don't have a domain set up yet, but I wanted to open my VPS's ip address in my browser to see the test site.

How can I make this happen?

Upvotes: 21

Views: 39261

Answers (5)

Dennis Nedry
Dennis Nedry

Reputation: 4747

For my rasperrypi running ubuntu i use this:

  1. setup IP forwarding in router to point external static IP to IP of raspi in local network (forward at least post 80 (HTTP))

  2. create nginx-config file under /etc/nginx/sites-available/foobar with the following content:

    server {
    listen 80;
    server_name <YOUR_IP_GOES_HERE>; 

    root /var/www/foobar;  # Adjust to your site's root directory
    index index.html index.htm;
}

  3. create symlink to sites-enabled via sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/foobar /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

  4. create html-file under /var/www/foobar/index.html

  5. restart nginx to apply changes via sudo systemctl restart nginx

Upvotes: 0

UltraMaster
UltraMaster

Reputation: 1124

I set a default_server with the server_name: _ in my /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

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

    server_name _;

    location / {
        # your config goes here
    }
}

This way all traffic to port 80 gets served by this server configuration unless other rules catch it.

More info: nginx server_name wildcard or catch-all

Upvotes: 2

Xeaon
Xeaon

Reputation: 49

Better solution: Have fun testing many applications

Set host entry on dev machine (not the server). /etc/hosts C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

Add as one Line: ipaddress domain i.e 82.32.45.144 is your vps:

82.32.45.144 sample.com
82.32.45.144 www.sample.com
82.32.45.144 wiki.sample.com
82.32.45.144 shop.sample.com
82.32.45.144 sample.co.uk
82.32.45.144 sample.de

Upvotes: 4

minato namikaze
minato namikaze

Reputation: 23

You can configure nginx in an easier way rather than specifying the ip address. You can just user localhost as server_name like below. You must still use the ip address in the web browser if this stands for a web app.

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name localhost;

    <other stuff>

}

Upvotes: -3

nrlakin
nrlakin

Reputation: 5584

You can just use your VPS's ip in place of "sample.com":

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name <your_ip_address>;

    <other stuff>

}

If you haven't already, you may want to assign a static IP; I believe Digital Ocean gives you some free ones.

Upvotes: 43

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