Nginx forwarding git.example.com to www.example.com

Question

As in the title, my website, git.mad3ngineer.net forwards to www.mad3ngineer.net. However, my ci.mad3ngineer.net uses the same system but works just fine...

The website can be checked out at http://git.mad3ngineer.net which you can see forwards you to the default site, which is currently just a drab html document made in vi. However, if you type in http://ci.mad3ngineer.net it magically works!!! And, not to mention... If you add the /users/sign_in to git.mad3ngineer.net... Like so: git.mad3ngineer.net/users/sign_in it magically works as well :O... How can this be? What am I doing wrong? I have rebooted the server, reloaded the configs, and I don't understand what I am doing wrong.

Here is my nginx site-configuration file:

upstream gitlab {
  server unix:/var/opt/gitlab/gitlab-rails/sockets/gitlab.socket;
}

upstream gitlabci {
  server unix:/var/opt/gitlab/gitlab-ci/sockets/gitlab.socket;
}

server{
    listen      80 default_server;
    server_name 192.168.1.10 mad3ngineer.net www.mad3ngineer.net;

    root /var/www/mad3ngineer.net;

    location / {
        index index.php index.html index.htm;
    }

    location /gitlab {
        rewrite ^/gitlab/(.*) http://git.mad3ngineer.net$1 break;
    }
    location ~ \.php$ {
                try_files $uri =404;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                include fastcgi_params;

    }
}

server{
        listen 80;
        server_name ci.mad3ngineer.net;
        server_tokens off;

        root /var/opt/gitlab/git-data;
        index index.php index.html index.htm;

        client_max_body_size 20m;

        access_log /var/log/nginx/gitlab_access.log;
        error_log  /var/log/nginx/gitlab_error.log;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/index.html $uri.html @gitlabci;
        }

        location @gitlabci {
                proxy_read_timeout 300;
                proxy_connect_timeout 300; # Some requests take more than 30 seconds.
                proxy_redirect     off;

                proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
                proxy_set_header   Host              $http_host;
                proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP         $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For   $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                proxy_set_header   X-Frame-Options   SAMEORIGIN;

                proxy_pass http://gitlabci;
        }
}

server{
        listen 80;
        server_name git.mad3ngineer.net gitlab.mad3ngineer.net;
        server_tokens off;

        root /var/opt/gitlab/git-data;
        index index.php index.html index.htm;

        client_max_body_size 20m;

        access_log /var/log/nginx/gitlab_access.log;
        error_log  /var/log/nginx/gitlab_error.log;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/index.html $uri.html @gitlab;
        }

        location @gitlab {
                proxy_read_timeout 300;
                proxy_connect_timeout 300; # Some requests take more than 30 seconds.
                proxy_redirect     off;

                proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
                proxy_set_header   Host              $http_host;
                proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP         $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For   $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                proxy_set_header   X-Frame-Options   SAMEORIGIN;

                proxy_pass http://gitlab;
        }
}

SOLVED: I had to change the root value to /var/opt/gitlab/nginx for git.mad3ngineer.net. Thanks for the answer!

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 24 '15 at 08:08

You need to configure "root" directory of both servers to proper paths.

both root set as below:

 root /var/opt/gitlab/git-data;

your gitlab directory may contain a redirection based on your its production/development config yaml file look for "gitlab_url".

Nginx forwarding git.example.com to www.example.com

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