Hi bdspice,

This testsite.local is just an example which works on localhost if you don’t have real domain. Same setup works for real domain, but you don’t have to do any changes on /etc/hosts file.

If you have domain xyz.com, then setup is almost same, you have to of course replace directory names and change dns records to point right place and open port 80 on firewall.

Please read guide, but here is quick steps:

1. Point your domain xyz.com dns records to your ip.

2. Create directories like
/srv/www/xyz.com/public_html
/srv/www/xyz.com/logs

3. Create Virtualhost /etc/nginx/sites-available/xyz.com:

server {
    server_name xyz.com;
    access_log /srv/www/xyz.com/logs/access.log;
    error_log /srv/www/xyz.com/logs/error.log;
    root /srv/www/xyz.com/public_html;
 
    location / {
        index index.html index.htm index.php;
    }
 
    location ~ \.php$ {
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /srv/www/xyz.com/public_html$fastcgi_script_name;
    }
}

4. “Enable” your virtualhost

cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/xyz.com

5. Restart (or reload) your nginx service

systemctl restart nginx.service

## OR ##

service nginx restart

6. Open firewall port