# Nginx and virtual hosts **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 28, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-and-virtual-hosts/130475 "2008-02-28T16:08:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![blinking\_bear](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@blinking\_bear](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blinking_bear)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-and-virtual-hosts/130475/1 "2008-02-28T16:08:26Z")
I need to move a site from a dedicated freebsd box running a bunch of sites under apache to a CentOS VPS. The VPS will run one rails site and possibly a few wordpress blogs. My question is this, how easy is it to have multiple virtual hosts configured under nginx? I’ve only ever done the 1 rails site per vps with nginx. I remember reading something about virtual hosts being difficult under nginx but I might have been smoking crack. thanks ---
**Author:** ![blinking\_bear](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@blinking\_bear](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blinking_bear)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-and-virtual-hosts/130475/2 "2008-02-28T17:06:28Z")
I found it really easy to set up multiple rails hosts but not tried with PHP I can’t see how it would be any harder. my setup uses individual config files which are symlinked too. i used a tutorial fro slicehost along with one of their VPS slices and i’m very impressed with the service. They may even have a centOS and nginx specific tutorial. [http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/1/16/ubuntu-gutsy-nginx-vhosts-](http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/1/16/ubuntu-gutsy-nginx-vhosts-) rails-and-mongrels great staff, very friendly and helpful in the chat room. cheers Nathan I got it up and running having never configured a webserver.