How to Host Multiple WordPress Websites on One Server with Nginx

[@vanvuite7307]

I thought Superman was only in a movie, you just proved we have a living Superman - I found you now! thank you!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Haha thanks!!

[@helmholtzwatson8884]

Thanks for a great tutorial. I'm just starting to explore nginx and this is very useful. In case you don't know, the problem you had with vim not replacing all instances of 'site2' in site3.xyz.conf is probably due to you using search and replace the same way copying site1.xyz.conf to site2.xyz.conf. The way you wrote it, it only changes the first instance on a line. That's why you had a 'site1' left over. To replace all instances, use the global tag: ':%s/site1/site2/g' That error got carried over to site3.xyz.conf. You fixed that but you may still have the original error in site2.xyz.conf if you haven't already fixed it.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Yeah you're right! The find and replace command should have been.... %s/site2/site3/g Thanks for the feedback on the video! I have a bunch of other Nginx videos on my channel kzbin.info/door/WPJwoVXJhv0-ucr3pUs1dAsearch?query=nginx and I'm working on some new Nginx videos right now!

[@ShibuHara]

This was super helpful, thank you! I like that you leave your little stumbles in the video too, makes you come across as very likable and approachable :) Subscribed!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Appreciate it 🙏

[@harmonymoyo4420]

Man you're such a great teacher, thank you for the clear explaination and nice clear step by step demo.

[@mohamedtadwala0]

Hi Tony. You know whenever you doing videos and you are using the terminal, I suggest that you keep the terminal a bit up. Because when I pause the video to see the command. the KZbin bar comes up and blocks the view. To understand better watch this video and then pause the video at 10:23 and you will know what I am talking about. By the way great tutorial videos. keep it up.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks, others have pointed this out and my newer videos have been adjusted accordingly. Sorry for the inconvenience!

[@NagenderGiri]

you stumbled for writing privileges... i loved that... and on that tone.. subscribed

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thank you very much!

[@DappledJoker]

😃 Thank you so much! Really helpful. Would you please consider in future videos that involve a CLI, placing your monitor feed to the top right of the video so that we can see the whole command you enter? It's blocked when your monitor feed is in the lower right.

[@andersonfornalski1944]

Tony, você me salvou, obrigado pela ajuda, estava com muitos problemas aqui, sou brasileiro e nao achei nenhum video aqui para me ajudar!! ============================================================== Tony, you saved me, thanks for the help, I was having a lot of problems here, i`m brasilian e nao achei nenhum video aqui para me ajudar!!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching :)

[@GabrielBarbosa-yp4vy]

Following the idea of this video, I would love to watch another video from you giving a deeper explanation about how you configured nginx and mysql =)

[@hassamulhaq7762]

I use virtualmin as free cPanel alternative with Nginx. Using this we can manage multiple sites, mails and all features of a control panel.

[@alexk9513]

Hi, 很高興在你的頻道上學了很多知識, 謝謝你, 看了你的 BLOG 歡迎你到台灣來旅遊.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Hi! You're very welcome

[@berthasebastian1490]

Hi Tony, I was wondering if you could give me your thoughts on using this approach (linode) to host wp sites than other web hosters such as siteground, bluehost and the myriad of others? One cheapest server could be $5/mo on linode but for siteground at least, my yearly cost comes to $300ish. In my understanding, I could save a lot just by doing this approach. Thanks!

[@sokhakho7154]

sir, may you tell me about Nginx and caddy webserver which is better I should use for my web hosting?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

I don't know much about Caddy, sorry

[@chenghuayang8273]

May I ask if I build sites by Docker with different WordPress container, and use Nginx to direct to different port # in VPS, is there any difference between this and your way?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

I'm not familiar enough with Docker to answer that

[@mohamednabil542]

Hi Tony, thanks for this great video, after following the steps and at the point of having the WP installation starts, the setup screen is not showing instead I have a pop-up asking me to download the install.php file. Note that, the first site is working with no issue, the second one is having this issue (I have only 2 sites) any help on this? Thanks

[@_zh3ro_]

GREAT video! Thank you so much!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Glad it was helpful!

[@SamiKhan-fd8gn]

Tony I have a question, I have configured multiple sites in this way. How do I install an SMTP server in this machine which can server all of these sites.

[@blackiek7]

Hi Tony, can we connect a cpanel like hestia with the oracle free tier? I’m using a mac but i can’t seem to understand how to generate a private key from the ssh using terminal putty gen command. Would you be able to do a video tutorial on this?

[@TobyDunn-jd1jl]

Well done!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks Toby

[@Matfi93]

Thank you Tony!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

My pleasure!

[@NagenderGiri]

your nginx video is really fantastic..i love your work.. but also,, could you do this on podman container with specific port..that'll be good to know

[@TonyTeachesTech]

I'm not familiar with podman containers, what's that?

[@sarvagyamaithani2093]

how did you get the conf file for site 1 & 2 directly on the sites-available directory. I only have the default one there. Can I copy that with a new name for my website

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Yes exactly

[@kapitankidlattv9613]

Tony, can this procedure be applied to say hmm different type of site, say one site is WP, then I have web app in python+ django. Or is this exclusively for WP sites only?

[@khalidelgazzar]

Great video .. a small glitch in 9:30 where the conf file contained site2 by mistake which needs to be changed to site2 as well. Still a great video

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Good catch!

[@timlan165]

wtf ?

[@lylefabian1691]

Hello Tony, I'd like to see how Nginx and WordPress can be installed on an UnRaid server via docker? I've been searching for ways of getting this done but found no real step by steps tutorials.

[@kernag7688]

Tony, can you please make a video on how to pull down an application from git on new Vultr server?

[@magicyvan]

Hi Tony, thanks a lot, I'm beginner but I love this possibility ! I would love to help friends and host their WP websites. Would it be more efficient to use dockers for each new website to deploy ? and for the ssl also ? Thanks

[@tiosing_eduard1]

so if I run a multiple website on one web server it will means all website I link in on my web server is shared on the capacity of the web server storage disk? I hope you understand what I mean... Couse I was now good in English... thank you so much for sharing informative video tutorial!!! I love it!!!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thank you very much. To answer your question: yes when you have multiple websites on the same server, the storage capacity as well as the processing power is shared between all websites on the server.

[@kapitankidlattv9613]

Tony, god day, how can we get rid of the extra /wordpress/ directory?\

[@irmscher9]

Is there any benefit of serving Wordpress with Docker? Or does Nginx has to be dockerized then as well? PS. Thanks a lot for this very useful video by the way :)

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Not sure, I'm not too familiar with Docker yet

[@yangjiao9136]

Thanks for the tutorial! I have a question. I already installed a wordpress using the WordPress Application on a Vultr vps, and I was trying to add another wordpress site to the same server. By 8'57" of the video, after I typed "/etc/nginx# cd sites-available/", the terminal told me "No such file or directory" . I suddently don't know what to do. Should I create a directory? Any help is appreciated!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Try to access the directory with an absolute path: cd /etc/nginx/sites-available/

[@donny533]

so every site needs its own WP? not something like, a vim for all users?

[@KentJudeBeldeniza1818]

Thanks for this!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Sure thing!

[@abelmurua6980]

Thanks for the video. How many websites can I host under a VPS doing this? Is this like "messing with the server" or its how it's supposed to do it? I am new to this and I am moving from Cloud Server to VPS

[@TonyTeachesTech]

This is a very legit thing to do. It's not messing with the server. You can host many websites like this on a single server. I don't have an exact number. This will depend on the RAM and CPU of your VPS

[@abelmurua6980]

@@TonyTeachesTech thanks, I appreciate your answer.

[@afelfemale]

@@TonyTeachesTech Hey Tony, how does Hosting Multiple WordPress Websites on One Server with Nginx effects SEO ranking? Do have experience with this? 😊 Is it safe?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

@@afelfemale There's no effect on SEO rankings

[@seopostoffer205]

Hi Tony ,How to install Wordpress on docker compose and using Nginx web server. Please advice thank you so much.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Hi, I am not yet familiar with docker. Soon though :)

[@metamask0x]

How do i host different website using the domainname but different ports ? one is port 80 another is port 5080 ?

[@ChrisMinardi]

Hey Tony, great video! Followed all of the steps to a T, but I'm getting a Bad Gateway error. Any easy fix for that? Thanks!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

This is usually an issue with the "upstream" server. Are you sure that your PHP FPM socket exists at /var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock ? Perhaps you have a different version of PHP installed. Please let me know if that helps or if that doesn't make sense.

[@Than3Dane]

Hey Tony, I'm almost done setting up my two websites on each their raspberry pi on the same public ip using your guidance so far. First site and server runs fine when port forward routed on the router, I routed that to the second site, messed around with reverse proxy/load balancing, trying to redirect access to 1st site server, but suddenly site 2 would load a result. Now both sites are setup with wordpress, but I just cannot figure out how to route the connection from site 2 to site 1. They each have their own specific domain address

[@Than3Dane]

on site 2 which should act as the proxy, I have 3 .conf files one for each domain and one for the proxy settings, when I edit and I'm looking at the .conf file which belongs to site 1, I can see changes on load, but theres a conflict either with finding content or ssl, depending on what changes I make. So that proves there is atleast a connection going on, they are interacting/communicating, just a small hiccup I suppose. If you have a moment, I'm all ears & eyes! Merry Christmas

[@DOCGaming911YT]

do you have video on how to install cloudpanel?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

No sorry

[@petertremblay3725]

Hi Tony, does nginx root have to be var/www since i was trying to point the root to /home/username/website_01 and it doesn't load the page?

[@dj786jojo]

hi tony, thx for you tutorial, but i have question iI followed your tutorial and missed nothing but I run into my website 403 Not Found nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu) maybe you can give info why it happened i placed the file in /var/www/html/mydomain.tld conf file in /etc/nginx/sites-available/mydomain.tld.conf then i link ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/mydomain.tld.my.id.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

[@jinu.freelance]

What kind of language is used to get these this..? How can i learn what to type and do this..?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

What do you mean by that?

[@karaipantsu1312]

Great video! So how do you transfer files from hard drive into the nginx environment? Would rsync work in this case?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Yes, you could use rsync. SCP is another option: - If you are on Mac/Linux: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2Oyeamip5VrZ9U - If you are on Windows: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWK3oqVtjNBol7c

[@karaipantsu1312]

@@TonyTeachesTech ah very nice! Thank you! And the curly thing at prompt is a "tilde" hehe

[@TonyTeachesTech]

@@karaipantsu1312 Sure thing Melanie. Yes, that's it 😉

[@mluevanos]

How would I get a Node.js App and Wordpress running on Ubuntu Digital Ocean?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Digital Ocean has some of the best tutorials available for so many different hosting topics. Check this one out for your specific setup... www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-node-js-application-for-production-on-ubuntu-20-04 You would simple set up WordPress as instructed in this video and then create another directory (/var/www/nodejsapp/ for example) and edit your Nginx configuration file to point to that path. Does that make sense?

[@kyuna4843]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGeVgoaYhc2bZ9U

[@satishkumarojha5377]

Do I have to install phpmyadmin separately for each individual WordPress...?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

No, you'll only need one install of phpmyadmin for multiple websites

[@soldadopreciso]

5:09 But if i want to use my normal user and not root, How can we do?

[@axelrocky5372]

thank you a lot that's a valuable lesson for me, just have 1 question, i do everything as you did step by step, but i have a 403 error forbidden, i google it and it seems like to be that nginx doesnt found an index.php file, but is there inside my wordpress directory hummmmm so iam still looking for that thank you again :D

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Can you confirm that the index directive in your Nginx config file is index.php (not index.html) and your root directive in your Nginx config file is the full path to WordPress? Another issue might be permissions... find /var/www/html/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; find /var/www/html/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; Please let me know if one of those works for you.

[@axelrocky5372]

@@TonyTeachesTech after a couple of days, it finally finds it, I have checked the permissions and paths as you suggested, then I found it to be the ownership, which was as nobody: nogroup change it to root and voila! Thank you Tony :D

[@themobileinternet991]

I had the same error, permissions were fine, but I did have to add index index.php in my wesite.conf file, that seemed to fix it.

[@KaydotOrigin]

This would be a top notch tutorial and educational video if it was complete. But there is no SSL here, theres no mention of the loss of encryption between the proxy and the site and how to do this in production not local development

[@TonyTeachesTech]

I have a few other videos on this channel in regards to setting up SSL on Nginx

[@SprintsNClimbs]

Just to share an issue I had when getting a 403 Forbidden error. The autoindex module didn't seem to be working which apparently allows Nginx to generate and serve an index of the files and directories within a given directory if an index file (like index.html or index.php) is not present. Without this module, Nginx will return a "403 Forbidden" error when it is asked to serve a directory without an index file. So to fix this I just added the following line in my .conf file 'index index.php index.html index.htm;' after the server_name line. Hope this helps someone

[@zagamerx7348]

Hey there, i got this error too... Which config file you mean? Nginx.conf or site.xyz.conf or the default in sites available

[@atulhostvideos]

Salt keys are nothing but a secure way of encrypting logged in sessions.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks for explaining

[@akramsuleyman1567]

You forgot to put the global option '/g' on the substitute command in vim that's why 'site1' wasn't changed :)

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Good call :)

[@dhiyaaulauliyaa3988]

I get "Error establishing a database connection". I can assure that the mysql db, user, and password not wrong. anybody has experienced this?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

At what point do you get this error?

[@rayoseldev819]

I have permission acces problem You don't have permission to access / on this server.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

This sounds like you will need to prefix your commands with sudo or use a different user that has the appropriate permissions. BTW, why do you need permissions to access /? You shouldn't be creating or modifying anything in the root of your server

[@rayoseldev819]

@@TonyTeachesTech I put the server in conf.g and all works

[@christopherrimplington3643]

Same video but in "non-nerd" would be great

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Haha sorry that's just the nature of the topic

[@quissy5923]

use open windows we are not all coders stressed!!

[@FabioGMartinez]

Amazing. Are you human? 😁 thanks

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks Fabio

[@aldrinwong6160]

Title is misleading. Should say how to add another website to a previously hosted server using Nginx. All you did is copy and paste what you had in the server already.

[@Kaotix_music]

‘How to host multiple Wordpress websites on nginx” what’s so misleading about that? He literally showed how to have multiple websites, based on Wordpress, on the same server. If you want to take a website and migrate it, follow his steps, make a Wordpress for the new site, and go on the ‘previous hosted site’ and download all its contents, but it in the new one you made, changed the A records for the domain, you’re done. But you assumed this was a migration tutorial, when it showed how to start a ‘new’ site…but some rules apply just use Wordpress import/export feature to take from the old and put on the new

[@finnteuwsen3789]

403 forbidden

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Please see this video to solve the 403 error kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmK3Zn2AfLxnlcU

[@GiridharVedula]

Who to do with Joomla. (Joomla, Nginx, CentOS, MariaDB

[@paperlanes07]

How can I do this using docker containers and nginx proxy?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

I'm not familiar with docker yet