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Mosfet
Mosfet

Reputation: 35

nginx on centos 7 is servicing pages using www.domain.tld but not domain.tld (all request are http on port 80)

I'm having the following issue :
My centos 7 vps is configured with nginx and two server-blocks (vhosts)
For both domains I can access the web-page using www.domain.tld but not using domain.tld.
No error or access logs are generated when accessing domain.tld
Dns record were checked and are pointing to the servers IP address with an empty A record ( the same dns record worked properly when server was configured with ubuntu 18.04, iRedMail, nextcloud and two websites).

The error message in browser is : "This site can’t be reached. domain.tld refused to connect."

Below are the config files (nginx and one domain), I've included the path for reference:

nginx.conf 

#cat /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

user nginx;
worker_processes auto;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid /run/nginx.pid;

include /usr/share/nginx/modules/*.conf;

events {
    worker_connections 1024;
}

http {
    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;

    sendfile            on;
    tcp_nopush          on;
    tcp_nodelay         on;
    keepalive_timeout   65;
    types_hash_max_size 2048;

    include             /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type        application/octet-stream;

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;

    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*.conf;
    server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;


  server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    server_name "";
    return 444;
  }
}

* default_server is used to prevent access to nginx welcome page when accessing http:\serverIP . Behavior is not affected by returning this config to nginx default.

domain config 

# cat /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/domain.tld.conf 

server {
   listen   80;
   server_name  domain.tld www.domain.tld;

   location / {
        root  /var/www/domain.tld;
        index  index.html index.htm;
   }

   error_page 404 /404.html;
       location = /40x.html {
   }

   error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
       location = /50x.html {
   }
# Setting log locations
   access_log /var/log/nginx/domain.tld-access.log;
   error_log /var/log/nginx/domain.tld-error.log debug;
}

I must mention that the purpose of this VPS is to learn basic Linux sysadmin, therefore there is no real data or restrictions and also that is my first contact with centos.

Thanks for your time and effort.

L.E. Adding "127.0.0.1 www.domain.tld domain.tld" to /etc/hosts does not fix the issue. Both domains are real domains with dns server and all records are replicated. Furthermore using trace-route to domain VPS IP is reached.

Nginx config is successful validated 

# nginx -t
nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful

Upon further investigations I've noticed that no request appear in access or error log (error set to debug) when accessing domain.tld but they do for www.domain.tld Witch would send me straight to DNS but checking DNS using a few dig online versions everything seems OK, both domain.tld and www.domain.tld point to the correct VPS ip

Upvotes: 0

Views: 158

Answers (1)

Mosfet
Mosfet

Reputation: 35

After loosing almost two days trying to figure out what is causing this issue finally, non-intentionally I've accessed the website while I was remote on another PC and to my utmost surprise everything worked just fine. Now I'm sure that I've cleared my DNS cache multiple times but apparently the issue was generated by plugin httpsEverywhere.

Thanks and I promise to try harder next time :D

Upvotes: 0

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