Support #856
Updated by Daniel Curtis over 7 years ago
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One of the websites I am working on at the moment isn't quite ready for production, but the domain name has already been purchased and I want *something* to show up when visited. To accomplish this I've setup a separate folder with Oleose, an open source landing page template, and set nginx to redirect to the landing page if not connected from localhost.
This is a guide on how to setup a landing page and redirect incoming Internet connections to the landing page with nginx on FreeBSD 10.
*NOTE*: This setup is done without performance-costing "if" statements; but rather sets the landing page as a custom access denied page, then using nginx's built-in access control list to deny all connections to the main website except for connections from 127.0.0.1.
h2. Install Nginx
* Install nginx:
<pre>
pkg install nginx
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* Start and enable nginx at boot:
<pre>
echo 'nginx_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
service nginx start
</pre>
* Create a configuration directory to make managing individual server blocks easier
<pre>
mkdir /usr/local/etc/nginx/conf.d
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* Edit the main nginx config file:
<pre>
vi /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
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#* And strip down the config file and add the include statement at the end to make it easier to handle various server blocks:
<pre>
worker_processes 1;
error_log /var/log/nginx-error.log;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
sendfile on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
# Load config files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory
include /usr/local/etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}
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h3. Basic Website
* Add a *newsite.example.com server block*:
<pre>
vi /usr/local/etc/nginx/conf.d/newsite.example.com.conf
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#* Add the following:
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server {
listen 80;
server_name newsite.example.com;
root /usr/local/www/newsite.example.com;
access_log /var/log/newsite.example.com-access.log;
error_log /var/log/newsite.example.com-error.log;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
}
}
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* Restart nginx:
<pre>
service nginx restart
</pre>
h3. Oleose Landing Page
* Clone the oleose landing page from github:
<pre>
cd /usr/local/www
git clone https://github.com/ScoopThemes/Oleose.git landing-page
</pre>
* Edit the *newsite.example.com server block*:
<pre>
vi /usr/local/etc/nginx/conf.d/newsite.example.com.conf
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#* Add the following:
<pre>
server {
listen 80;
server_name newsite.example.com;
root /usr/local/www/newsite.example.com;
access_log /var/log/newsite.example.com-access.log;
error_log /var/log/newsite.example.com-error.log;
location ~ ^/(?:CHANGELOG\.md|README.md|.git|.gitignore){
deny all;
}
location / {
error_page 403 = @internetland;
allow 127.0.0.1;
deny all;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
}
location @internetland {
return 301 $scheme://newsite.example.com/landing-page;
}
location /assets {
alias /usr/local/www/landing-page/assets;
index index.html
allow all;
try_files $uri $uri/;
}
location /landing-page {
alias /usr/local/www/landing-page;
index index.html
allow all;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
}
}
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* Restart nginx:
<pre>
service nginx restart
</pre>
* Now open a web browser and go to http://newsite.example.com , you will find that all requests from the internet are sent to http://newsite.example.com/landing-page
*NOTE*: Since the normal website is blocked to all but connections from localhost, I use an SSH tunnel to log into the web server:
<pre>
ssh -L 8080:localhost:80 newsite.example.com
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Then open a web browser and go to http://localhost:8080 to tunnel all HTTP traffic on port 8080 on the local machine.
h2. Resources
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17993011/redirecting-all-requests-that-arent-from-my-ip-with-nginx