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I think the sites-available is a debianism, not present on all distros. One nice thing that nginx supports is include directives with wildcards so you can e.g.

by thu 13y ago

I think the sites-available is a debianism, not present on all distros. One nice thing that nginx supports is include directives with wildcards so you can e.g. have /srv/example.com/nginx.conf and /srv/api.example.com/nginx.conf and include them in the main configuration file with include /srv/*/nginx.conf.

ChikkaChiChi 13y ago
I may be misunderstanding you, but sites-available and the conf files are usually two separate entities. sites-available | sites-enabled is analogous to using a2ensite in Apache without the automagic (you symlink yourself)
- chc 13y ago
  On systems that have both, yes, they're separate. But that separation is something the distribution does to help you organize your rules — to nginx, they're all the same AFAIK.
- GibbyBorn 13y ago
  It's distro-specific and it doesn't present by default in stock nginx.
callmeed 13y ago
Yeah, I run nginx on both Ubuntu and RedHat boxes. On RedHat, the conf files go in /opt/nginx/conf ... there is no sites-avail/enabled
lowboy 13y ago
I ran into a version of Nginx on CentOS had sites-avail/enabled.
- ciclista 13y ago
  I'm currently running Centos 6 on my VPS and it has this file structure.
jlogsdon 13y ago
He did mention specifically that the structure was provided by the `apt` install.
merlincorey 13y ago
Today You Learn that is because the original package maintainer of the NginX package in Debian (and thus later, Ubuntu) simply copied the structure of the Apache package. It's most useless because there is no script to manage the sites available like with apache. I have been complaining about this for years! On FreeBSD and all my client's sites (whether they run Linux or what), I always set mine to include sites/*.conf and delete those apache-isms.
- vacri 13y ago
  It's especially bizarre given how trivial such a script is - as far as I am aware, it's a glorified symlink-maker. Hrm, looking now, a2ensite is 340 lines long...
  - merlincorey 13y ago
    Quite the glorified symlink maker! It is my experience from years of administration that `ln` and `rm` (or perhaps `mv`) are the only commands necessary to work with the directories without the scripts.
- 616c 13y ago
  You know how many times I had to restart the nginx daemon on a VPS for me to figure this out. Thank you for complaining!
Livven 13y ago
There are "official" nginx packages for Ubuntu and other major Linux distributions which are always up-to-date and use a standard conf.d directory for including configuration files http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html

by thu 13y ago

ChikkaChiChi 13y ago

I may be misunderstanding you, but sites-available and the conf files are usually two separate entities. sites-available | sites-enabled is analogous to using a2ensite in Apache without the automagic (you symlink yourself)

chc 13y ago
On systems that have both, yes, they're separate. But that separation is something the distribution does to help you organize your rules — to nginx, they're all the same AFAIK.
GibbyBorn 13y ago
It's distro-specific and it doesn't present by default in stock nginx.

callmeed 13y ago

Yeah, I run nginx on both Ubuntu and RedHat boxes. On RedHat, the conf files go in /opt/nginx/conf ... there is no sites-avail/enabled

lowboy 13y ago

I ran into a version of Nginx on CentOS had sites-avail/enabled.

ciclista 13y ago
I'm currently running Centos 6 on my VPS and it has this file structure.

jlogsdon 13y ago

He did mention specifically that the structure was provided by the `apt` install.

merlincorey 13y ago

Today You Learn that is because the original package maintainer of the NginX package in Debian (and thus later, Ubuntu) simply copied the structure of the Apache package. It's most useless because there is no script to manage the sites available like with apache. I have been complaining about this for years! On FreeBSD and all my client's sites (whether they run Linux or what), I always set mine to include sites/*.conf and delete those apache-isms.

vacri 13y ago
It's especially bizarre given how trivial such a script is - as far as I am aware, it's a glorified symlink-maker. Hrm, looking now, a2ensite is 340 lines long...
- merlincorey 13y ago
  Quite the glorified symlink maker! It is my experience from years of administration that `ln` and `rm` (or perhaps `mv`) are the only commands necessary to work with the directories without the scripts.
616c 13y ago
You know how many times I had to restart the nginx daemon on a VPS for me to figure this out. Thank you for complaining!

Livven 13y ago

There are "official" nginx packages for Ubuntu and other major Linux distributions which are always up-to-date and use a standard conf.d directory for including configuration files http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html