nginx missing sites-available directory

nginx centos virtualhost
Fr0ntSight picture Fr0ntSight · Jul 1, 2013 · Viewed 133.9k times · Source

I installed Nginx on Centos 6 and I am trying to set up virtual hosts. The problem I am having is that I can't seem to find the /etc/nginx/sites-available directory.

Is there something I need to do in order to create it? I know Nginx is up and running because I can browse to it.

Answer

Mohammad AbuShady picture Mohammad AbuShady · Jul 2, 2013

Well, I think nginx by itself doesn't have that in its setup, because the Ubuntu-maintained package does it as a convention to imitate Debian's apache setup. You could create it yourself if you wanted to emulate the same setup.

Create /etc/nginx/sites-available and /etc/nginx/sites-enabled and then edit the http block inside /etc/nginx/nginx.conf and add this line

include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;

Of course, all the files will be inside sites-available, and you'd create a symlink for them inside sites-enabled for those you want enabled.

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