Nginx - Setup subdomain doesn't work correctly

Question

At beginning, I created a conf file that work correctly when I want to access to http://www.domain.com :

server {
   listen 80;
   listen [::]:80;

   root /var/www/domain;
   index index.html

   server_name domain.com www.domain.com;
}

Then I decide to create another conf file for a subdomain :

server {
   listen 80;
   listen [::]:80;

   root /var/www/subdomain.domain;
   index index.html

   server_name subdomain.domain.com;
}

Now the probleme is that whenever I want to access to http://www.domain.com or http://subdomain.domain.com, in both case the result is the page that I should obtain for the subdomain.

The new conf file is correctly added to site-enabled folder :

ln -s /etc/nginx/site-available/subdomain.domain.conf /etc/nginx/site-enabled/subdomain.domain.conf

And this is how my DNS records looks like :

domain.com. IN A <server_ip>
www.domain.com. IN A <server_ip>
subdomain.domain.com. IN A <server_ip>

Why is there no semicolon in the `index` directive? – techraf Jan 23 '17 at 02:47 — techraf, Jan 23 '17 at 02:47

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 23 '17 at 07:05

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You are missing the ; in the index directive, which causes nginx to interpret

index.html

server_name domain.com www.domain.com;

as the content of index directive. Therefore there is no virtual host defined with a server_name, and nginx will use the subdomain virtual host as the catch-all virtual host.

answered Jan 23 '17 at 07:05

Tero Kilkanen

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Arf, my bad, it was indeed the problem ... Thank you very much guys ! – zronn Jan 23 '17 at 09:18

Nginx - Setup subdomain doesn't work correctly

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