Elastic Beanstalk Custom Nginx conf

Question

I'm setting up a new Amazon Linux 2/PHP/NGINX environment and I'm a little unfamiliar with Nginx since my last environment on Elastic Beanstalk was Amazon Linux/PHP/Apache. (Amazon changed the proxy to Nginx from Apache and the underlying platform was upgraded from Amazon linux to AL2)

Previously, I had an .htaccess file to handle multiple domains where a domain would have a corresponding folder that it would be served from. But, I know that .htaccess file won't work with Nginx.

So far I've tried adding a config file to the .ebextensions folder with something like this:

files: "/etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com.conf": mode: "000644" owner: root group: root source: https://someothersite.com/example.com.conf 

The source being referenced (example.com.conf) contains this:

server { listen 80; root /var/www/html/example.com; index index.html index.php; server_name example.com; location / { try_files $uri $uri/ =404; } } 

I thought I needed to create a symbolic link, so I have another config file in the .ebextensions folder that contains this:

commands: 10_link: command: sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/example.com 

After this ln command, I get an error during build. If I don't do that command I don't get an error, but it doesn't work (example.com/test.php wouldn't be served)

My last attempt was to do nothing in the .ebextensions folder and I created .platform/nginx/conf.d/custom.conf with the contents of

server { listen 80; root /var/www/html/example.com; index index.html index.php; server_name example.com; location / { try_files $uri $uri/ =404; } } 

This seems to be closer as example.com/test.php is going to the file, but the server is prompting the browser to download the php file instead.

Answer 1

1. For test purposes you can simply create files inside the /etc/nginx/sites-enabled folder

2. For multiple domains you can use

   server_name *.domain1.com custom.domain2.com;

3. Lastly, we need to process all PHP files via the FastCGI(on Ubuntu you can install it apt-get install php7.0-fpm) interface to PHP-FPM.

   server { listen 80; server_name mydomain.com; access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log combined; location / { root /var/www/html; try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; } location ~ \.php$ { fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php7.0-fpm.sock; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; include fastcgi_params; } }