Comments on: An Ubuntu VPS on Slicehost: Web Server

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:57:07 +0000

Discovered an option for spawn-fcgi while I was fiddling with permissions on files. Give it “-g www-data” (run as group www-data) which avoids the need to have files readable by all users on the system. Makes me feel better not having stuff readable to anyone who I may give access to the server.

By: Carlo

Carlo — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:22:09 +0000

Hi,
I wrote an email by your contact form, please read it.

Bye

Carlo

By: Pig Monkey

Pig Monkey — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:25:57 +0000

It looks like you don't have an index.php, which is why trying to go to it results in the 404 error. You have an index.html. That's why going to the domain without specifying a file takes you to the index.html, even though in the nginx config you specify index.php before index.html on the index line.

By: Carlo

Carlo — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:51:07 +0000

No problem, you are very kindly …

Vhost is:

server {

listen 80;
server_name http://www.evaskiva.com;
rewrite ^/(.*) http://evaskiva.com permanent;

}

server {

listen 80;
server_name evaskiva.com;

access_log /home/zenobox/public_html/evaskiva.com/log/access.log;
error_log /home/zenobox/public_html/evaskiva.com/log/error.log;

location / {

root /home/zenobox/public_html/evaskiva.com/public/;
index index.php index.html index.htm;

}

location ~ \.php$ {

fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/zenobox/public_html/evaskiva.com/public$fastcgi_script_name;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf;

}

Bye

Carlo

By: Pig Monkey

Pig Monkey — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:38:03 +0000

Care to post (or email me if you don’t want it public) your nginx server block for the vhost?

By: Carlo

Carlo — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:32:33 +0000

Hi,
I know You cannot help me without specific infos, but I try anyway excuse me.
Well … I followed all your instructions:
1) I installed Nginx web server, mysql and php
2) I configured Nginx and vhost following SliceHost guides
3) I installed spawn-fcgi and I followed all your info (by copy and paste into my SSH connection)
4) I restart (well … stop and start) Nginx
5) I create a index.php file that I put in /home/zenobox/public_html/evaskiva.com/public
I’m so sure to complete all procedure in a correct way.
But when I point my browser on http://www.evaskiva.com/index.php (or without index.php) the reposne is 404 not found … try yourself …
The server is running try http://209.20.69.80/
What can I make wrong ?
I know it’s not easy but can you help me ?
Thanks

By: Pig Monkey

Pig Monkey — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:59:25 +0000

@ Carlo:
I don’t use phpmyadmin, but you should be able to just install it in one directory, then put an alias under the server block of each of your vhosts in your nginx config, as Slicehost explains in this article under the “alias” heading. Another option would be to symlink it from one directory to the public html folder of each of your vhosts.

@ Kevin:
Thanks! Fixed.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:04:10 +0000

Noticed a slight flaw in your instructions. In the bit about compiling Lighthttpd, cd lighttpd-1.4.18.tar.gz
should be replaced with cd lighttpd-1.4.19

By: Carlo

Carlo — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:39:20 +0000

Hi,
Thank you very much for your tutorial. I ask how to install and configure PhpMyAdmin to run under all vhosts, with only one installation.
Can you help ?
Tanks
Carlo