# Newbie config not catching virtual host **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [February 27, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-config-not-catching-virtual-host/161513 "2009-02-27T02:37:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nuno\_MagalhSSSSes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Nuno\_MagalhSSSSes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nuno_MagalhSSSSes)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-config-not-catching-virtual-host/161513/1 "2009-02-27T02:37:39Z")
Greetings, I’ve just set up a domain name and i can’t get nginx to parse to the correct subfolder. I think this is related to fastcgi, caused by an error between my chair and keyboard. I have /var/www/nginx-default/ with a default page; and i have a subfolder with a site, so /var/www/nginx-default/subfolder/ - What i want: If a user enters: [http://my-cool-domain.com](http://my-cool-domain.com) s/he should get: /var/www/nginx-default/subfolder/ which would become: /var/www/nginx-default/subfolder/index.php (preferably without showing the filename in the adress bar) - What i have: If i enter [http://my-cool-domain.com](http://my-cool-domain.com) i get the default page at wwwroot, no css or images; if i enter [http://my-cool-domain.com/subfolder](http://my-cool-domain.com/subfolder) i get the 404 error page; if i enter [http://my-cool-domain.com/subfolder/index.php](http://my-cool-domain.com/subfolder/index.php) i get the page i want, php-parsed, no css or images. This is the same if i use the IP adress instead (only much faster), although browser-caching had me confused for a while… This is my config: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf [http://pastebin.com/m618b1c46](http://pastebin.com/m618b1c46) /etc/nginx/fastcgi\_params [http://pastebin.com/m4a40a295](http://pastebin.com/m4a40a295) /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default [http://pastebin.com/m111dd757](http://pastebin.com/m111dd757) I’m sure there are things i could replace with variables, set up a default catch all, etc, but i’d take one step at a time… This is probaby a missing coma or something, any help would be appreciated. Nuno Magalhães LU#484677 ---
**Author:** ![Nuno\_MagalhSSSSes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Nuno\_MagalhSSSSes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nuno_MagalhSSSSes)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 2:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-config-not-catching-virtual-host/161513/2 "2009-02-27T14:44:56Z")
I’ve changed sites-enabled so that it has default, which is a symlink to sites-available/default. I have the 40x.html page both in the / and in /mysite directories, with the right permissions. I’ve changed sites-available/default to this [http://pastebin.com/m2e7c6869](http://pastebin.com/m2e7c6869) Now i get 301 or redirect loop complaints, depending on the browser. Also, if i use [http://1.2.3.4](http://1.2.3.4) isntead of [domain.com](http://domain.com) i get redirected to [domain.com](http://domain.com) anyway. Are there any suggestions? Nuno Magalhães LU#484677 ---
**Author:** ![Nuno\_MagalhSSSSes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Nuno\_MagalhSSSSes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nuno_MagalhSSSSes)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 3:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-config-not-catching-virtual-host/161513/3 "2009-02-27T15:48:34Z")
Ok i wasn’t even getting my error page, which tend to happen if you only specify the 50x. I’ve fiddled some more and came back to where i was before, i.e., [http://domain.com](http://domain.com) gets me the root page, php is parsing (i have includes), css isn’t used, images don’t show up, so i’m missing a root somewhere… [http://domain.com/domaindir](http://domain.com/domaindir) gives me a 404 (my own, since i’ve configured 40x) [http://domain.com/domaindir/index.php](http://domain.com/domaindir/index.php) gives me the index, php parsed, no css or images. The same happens if i use the ip adress instead and it’s not changing to [domain.com](http://domain.com) in the adress bar anymore. Nuno Magalhães LU#484677 ---
**Author:** ![Nuno\_MagalhSSSSes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Nuno\_MagalhSSSSes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nuno_MagalhSSSSes)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-config-not-catching-virtual-host/161513/4 "2009-02-27T16:10:55Z")
My new sites-enabled/default looks like this: [http://pastebin.com/d36e0020f](http://pastebin.com/d36e0020f) The only place i’m referring the domain dir is here: location / { root /var/www/nginx-default/domaindir; #root /domaindir; index index.php index.html; } The rest of the file doesn’t use the domaindir. However, trying to go to [http://domain.com/](http://domain.com/) won’t take me to the show me the domain’s index but rather the nginx root index. The error log reports this: 2009/02/27 14:57:14 [error] 11880#0: \*6 open() “/var/www/nginx-default/domaindir/imagefile.png” failed (2: No such file or directory) But that image file is in the nginx root, not in the domaindir. Nuno Magalhães LU#484677