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My domain is: www.seekadventure.net
My web server is (include version):
NGINX
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
Ubuntu
My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
AWS
I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don't know):
Yes
So I am about to change my domain name, but plan on keeping my old one to keep redirects live.
I am slowly trying to figure out how to set up a second server and redirects within NGINX but I am a having issues trying to wrap my head around the certs.
Right now my cert is only set up for seekadventure.net can I add a new domain to the cert? How can I edit NGINX to forward to the new domain and still keep both on https?
I have posted more about how I am trying to figure this out on stack overflow here:ubuntu - Easiest way to change domain names in NGINX - Stack Overflow
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Welcome to the Let's Encrypt Community, Mike
Let's start off with gathering some requisite information.
What are the outputs of these commands?
sudo nginx -T
sudo ls -lRa /etc/nginx/sites-available
sudo ls -lRa /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
sudo certbot certificates
Part of the purpose of knowing these outputs is to ensure that we don't miss any tentacles in the process.
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griffin:
sudo nginx -T
sudo nginx -T
nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful
# configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:
user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 768;
# multi_accept on;
}
http {
##
# Basic Settings
##
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
types_hash_max_size 2048;
client_max_body_size 60M;
# server_tokens off;
# server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
# server_name_in_redirect off;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
##
# SSL Settings
##
ssl_protocols TLSv1.2; # Dropping SSLv3, ref: POODLE
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
##
# Logging Settings
##
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
##
# Gzip Settings
##
gzip on;
gzip_disable "msie6";
# gzip_vary on;
# gzip_proxied any;
# gzip_comp_level 6;
# gzip_buffers 16 8k;
# gzip_http_version 1.1;
# gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
##
# Virtual Host Configs
##
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}
#mail {
# # See sample authentication script at:
# # http://wiki.nginx.org/ImapAuthenticateWithApachePhpScript
#
# # auth_http localhost/auth.php;
# # pop3_capabilities "TOP" "USER";
# # imap_capabilities "IMAP4rev1" "UIDPLUS";
#
# server {
# listen localhost:110;
# protocol pop3;
# proxy on;
# }
#
# server {
# listen localhost:143;
# protocol imap;
# proxy on;
# }
#}
# configuration file /etc/nginx/mime.types:
types {
text/html html htm shtml;
text/css css;
text/xml xml;
image/gif gif;
image/jpeg jpeg jpg;
application/javascript js;
application/atom+xml atom;
application/rss+xml rss;
text/mathml mml;
text/plain txt;
text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor jad;
text/vnd.wap.wml wml;
text/x-component htc;
image/png png;
image/tiff tif tiff;
image/vnd.wap.wbmp wbmp;
image/x-icon ico;
image/x-jng jng;
image/x-ms-bmp bmp;
image/svg+xml svg svgz;
image/webp webp;
application/font-woff woff;
application/java-archive jar war ear;
application/json json;
application/mac-binhex40 hqx;
application/msword doc;
application/pdf pdf;
application/postscript ps eps ai;
application/rtf rtf;
application/vnd.apple.mpegurl m3u8;
application/vnd.ms-excel xls;
application/vnd.ms-fontobject eot;
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint ppt;
application/vnd.wap.wmlc wmlc;
application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml kml;
application/vnd.google-earth.kmz kmz;
application/x-7z-compressed 7z;
application/x-cocoa cco;
application/x-java-archive-diff jardiff;
application/x-java-jnlp-file jnlp;
application/x-makeself run;
application/x-perl pl pm;
application/x-pilot prc pdb;
application/x-rar-compressed rar;
application/x-redhat-package-manager rpm;
application/x-sea sea;
application/x-shockwave-flash swf;
application/x-stuffit sit;
application/x-tcl tcl tk;
application/x-x509-ca-cert der pem crt;
application/x-xpinstall xpi;
application/xhtml+xml xhtml;
application/xspf+xml xspf;
application/zip zip;
application/octet-stream bin exe dll;
application/octet-stream deb;
application/octet-stream dmg;
application/octet-stream iso img;
application/octet-stream msi msp msm;
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document docx;
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet xlsx;
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation pptx;
audio/midi mid midi kar;
audio/mpeg mp3;
audio/ogg ogg;
audio/x-m4a m4a;
audio/x-realaudio ra;
video/3gpp 3gpp 3gp;
video/mp2t ts;
video/mp4 mp4;
video/mpeg mpeg mpg;
video/quicktime mov;
video/webm webm;
video/x-flv flv;
video/x-m4v m4v;
video/x-mng mng;
video/x-ms-asf asx asf;
video/x-ms-wmv wmv;
video/x-msvideo avi;
}
# configuration file /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:
##
# You should look at the following URL's in order to grasp a solid understanding
# of Nginx configuration files in order to fully unleash the power of Nginx.
# https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/
# https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/tutorials/config_pitfalls/
# https://wiki.debian.org/Nginx/DirectoryStructure
#
# In most cases, administrators will remove this file from sites-enabled/ and
# leave it as reference inside of sites-available where it will continue to be
# updated by the nginx packaging team.
#
# This file will automatically load configuration files provided by other
# applications, such as Drupal or Wordpress. These applications will be made
# available underneath a path with that package name, such as /drupal8.
#
# Please see /usr/share/doc/nginx-doc/examples/ for more detailed examples.
##
# Default server configuration
#
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
# SSL configuration
#
# listen 443 ssl default_server;
# listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
#
# Note: You should disable gzip for SSL traffic.
# See: https://bugs.debian.org/773332
#
# Read up on ssl_ciphers to ensure a secure configuration.
# See: https://bugs.debian.org/765782
#
# Self signed certs generated by the ssl-cert package
# Don't use them in a production server!
#
# include snippets/snakeoil.conf;
root /var/www/html;
# Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
server_name _;
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
# pass PHP scripts to FastCGI server
#
#location ~ \.php$ {
# include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
#
# # With php-fpm (or other unix sockets):
# fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
# # With php-cgi (or other tcp sockets):
# fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
#}
# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
#
#location ~ /\.ht {
# deny all;
#}
}
# Virtual Host configuration for example.com
#
# You can move that to a different file under sites-available/ and symlink that
# to sites-enabled/ to enable it.
#
#server {
# listen 80;
# listen [::]:80;
#
# server_name example.com;
#
# root /var/www/example.com;
# index index.html;
#
# location / {
# try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
# }
#}
# configuration file /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/seekadventure.net:
server {
server_name seekadventure.net;
return 301 https://www.seekadventure.net$request_uri;
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/seekadventure.net/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/seekadventure.net/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
# Security headers
add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload";
client_max_body_size 300M;
location ~* ^/(composer\.(json|lock)|config\.php|flarum|storage|vendor) {
deny all;
return 404;
}
}
server {
# Security headers
add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload";
root /var/www/seekadventure.net/public;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log error;
server_name www.seekadventure.net;
client_max_body_size 300M;
location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string; }
location /flarum {
deny all;
return 404;
}
location ~ .php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
location ~* \.html$ {
expires -1;
}
location ~* \.(css|js|gif|jpe?g|png)$ {
expires 1M;
add_header Pragma public;
add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
}
location ~* ^/(composer\.(json|lock)|config\.php|flarum|storage|vendor) {
deny all;
return 404;
}
gzip on;
gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_vary on;
gzip_comp_level 6;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_types application/atom+xml
application/javascript
application/json
application/vnd.ms-fontobject
application/x-font-ttf
application/x-web-app-manifest+json
application/xhtml+xml
application/xml
font/opentype
image/svg+xml
image/x-icon
text/css
text/plain
text/xml;
gzip_buffers 16 8k;
gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/seekadventure.net/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/seekadventure.net/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
}
server {
if ($host = seekadventure.net) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
listen 80;
server_name seekadventure.net;
return 404; # managed by Certbot
}
server {
if ($host = www.seekadventure.net) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
listen 80;
server_name www.seekadventure.net;
return 404; # managed by Certbot
}
# configuration file /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf:
# This file contains important security parameters. If you modify this file
# manually, Certbot will be unable to automatically provide future security
# updates. Instead, Certbot will print and log an error message with a path to
# the up-to-date file that you will need to refer to when manually updating
# this file.
ssl_session_cache shared:le_nginx_SSL:10m;
ssl_session_timeout 1440m;
ssl_session_tickets off;
ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers off;
ssl_ciphers "ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384";
# configuration file /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params:
fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $request_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_URI $document_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $document_root;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_SCHEME $scheme;
fastcgi_param HTTPS $https if_not_empty;
fastcgi_param GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param SERVER_SOFTWARE nginx/$nginx_version;
fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param REMOTE_PORT $remote_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_ADDR $server_addr;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT $server_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $server_name;
# PHP only, required if PHP was built with --enable-force-cgi-redirect
fastcgi_param REDIRECT_STATUS 200;
ubuntu@ip-172-31-92-154:~$
sudo ls -lRa /etc/nginx/sites-available:
/etc/nginx/sites-available:
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 30 2020 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Apr 19 05:16 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2416 Mar 26 2020 default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3275 Nov 30 2020 seekadventure.net
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3369 Nov 30 2018 seekadventure.net.save
sudo ls -lRa /etc/nginx/sites-enabled:
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 30 2020 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Apr 19 05:16 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Apr 20 2018 default -> /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Apr 20 2018 seekadventure.net -> /etc/nginx/sites-available/seekadventure.net
sudo certbot certificates:
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
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Found the following certs:
Certificate Name: seekadventure.net
Serial Number: 32a896a5541bff3c211d857179c3a7810a7
Key Type: RSA
Domains: seekadventure.net www.seekadventure.net
Expiry Date: 2021-07-18 04:16:37+00:00 (VALID: 42 days)
Certificate Path: /etc/letsencrypt/live/seekadventure.net/fullchain.pem
Private Key Path: /etc/letsencrypt/live/seekadventure.net/privkey.pem
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Thanks for that.
Keeping this simple, you'll want to:
Remove the /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
symlink
Change...
this:
server {
server_name seekadventure.net;
return 301 https://www.seekadventure.net$request_uri;
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
to this:
server {
server_name newdomain.com seekadventure.net;
return 301 https://www.newdomain.com$request_uri;
listen 443 ssl default_server; # managed by Certbot
listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
Change...
this:
server_name www.seekadventure.net;
to this:
server_name www.newdomain.com;
Change...
this:
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
to this:
listen 443 ssl default_server; # managed by Certbot
listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
Change...
this:
server {
if ($host = seekadventure.net) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
listen 80;
server_name seekadventure.net;
return 404; # managed by Certbot
}
server {
if ($host = www.seekadventure.net) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
listen 80;
server_name www.seekadventure.net;
return 404; # managed by Certbot
}
to this:
server {
return 301 https://www.newdomain.com$request_uri;
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
server_name newdomain.com www.newdomain.com seekadventure.net www.seekadventure.net;
}
Reload nginx...
sudo nginx -s reload
Get a combined certificate...
sudo certbot certonly --cert-name seekadventure.net --nginx -d "newdomain.com,www.newdomain.com,seekadventure.net,www.seekadventure.net" --deploy-hook "nginx -s reload"
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Awesome thanks so much for the help! I think I followed along pretty well for what is doing. Can you check here to see if I followed along correctly?
Also I noticed this line was added in a bunch of locations:
listen [::]:80 default_server;
What does that line do?
Now I am just trying to think if there is anything else I would have to change. I already have the new domain pointing to the correct IP for my server in preperation for when I do these changes.
My site does have a config.php file so I am pretty sure I will have to update this line as well with the new domain:
'url' => 'https://www.seekadventure.net'
And then I think I am good to go.... fingers crossed.
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You missed replacing this in your first server block:
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
with this:
listen 443 ssl default_server; # managed by Certbot
You don't want the default_server
in this line in your second server block:
listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
Only one server block can be the default server for a particular ipaddress:port combination. You always want the default server to be a server block that forwards traffic to a secure server block that serves content. Thus, your big (port 443) server block should not be a default server, but is the redirection destination of the (port 80 and port 443) default servers.
It allows for IPv6 support. If/when you ever have/add an AAAA record to your DNS pointing to a correct IPv6 address for your webserver, your configuration will already be prepared.
This line is for IPv4 (A record):
listen 80 default_server;
The default_server
part makes its containing server block respond for any unknown hostname being requested for the IP address(es) and port that server block serves. This is especially important if someone enters http://ipaddress/
into the address bar. You don't want a security hole (like you have in the original configuration you presented) that allows visitors to unsecurely access content on your webserver.
mikejones3:
Now I am just trying to think if there is anything else I would have to change. I already have the new domain pointing to the correct IP for my server in preperation for when I do these changes.
My site does have a config.php file so I am pretty sure I will have to update this line as well with the new domain:
'url' => 'https://www.seekadventure.net'
And then I think I am good to go.... fingers crossed.
Yep. You need to replace all the necessary references to your old domain name.
griffin:
You don't want the default_server
in this line in your second server block:
listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
Only one server block can be the default server for a particular ipaddress:port combination. You always want the default server to be a server block that forwards traffic to a secure server block that serves content. Thus, your big (port 443) server block should not be a default server, but is the redirection destination of the (port 80 and port 443) default servers.
Thanks for catching that. Looks like I had it in the third server block as well.
How do these edits look now?
https://pastebin.com/YWY5AsfH
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You want the default_server
in both port 80 lines of the third server block.
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I thought it was only supposed to be in one server block?
Should I add them in the third server block and remove from the first?
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You want default_server
to cover both port 443 and port 80 (first and third server blocks).
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So i tried to reload NGINX and it seems to not have liked that I deleted the default file in sites-available
ubuntu@ip-172-31-92-154:/etc/nginx/sites-available$ sudo nginx -s reload
nginx: [emerg] open() "/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default" failed (2: No such file or directory) in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:63
ubuntu@ip-172-31-92-154:/etc/nginx/sites-available$
ubuntu@ip-172-31-92-154:/etc/nginx/sites-available$
So it looks liek I can't restart nginx? Assuming somethign someplace was pointing to default and now should point to seekadventure.net in sites-available?
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What are the contents of /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
?
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I didnt see anything pointing to default...
user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 768;
# multi_accept on;
}
http {
##
# Basic Settings
##
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
types_hash_max_size 2048;
client_max_body_size 60M;
# server_tokens off;
# server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
# server_name_in_redirect off;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
##
# SSL Settings
##
ssl_protocols TLSv1.2; # Dropping SSLv3, ref: POODLE
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
##
# Logging Settings
##
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
##
# Gzip Settings
##
gzip on;
gzip_disable "msie6";
# gzip_vary on;
# gzip_proxied any;
# gzip_comp_level 6;
# gzip_buffers 16 8k;
# gzip_http_version 1.1;
# gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss tex>
##
# Virtual Host Configs
##
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}
#mail {
# # See sample authentication script at:
# # http://wiki.nginx.org/ImapAuthenticateWithApachePhpScript
#
# # auth_http localhost/auth.php;
# # pop3_capabilities "TOP" "USER";
# # imap_capabilities "IMAP4rev1" "UIDPLUS";
#
# server {
# listen localhost:110;
# protocol pop3;
# proxy on;
# }
#
# server {
# listen localhost:143;
# protocol imap;
# proxy on;
# }
#}
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So I think I had to remove default from sites-enabled as well. Once I did that I was able to use the restart command successfully
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It was supposed to be removed from sites-enabled .
griffin:
Remove the /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
symlink
This is the line that caused the error:
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
The error was caused by the broken default
symlink in the sites-enabled
directory resulting from removing the actual default
configuration file in the sites-available
directory.
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my bad....
Thanks for all the help, everything is up and running smoothly! Domain change done! Now I wait a cross my fingers and watch my SEO lol
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No worries, my friend. Glad it's up and running (with IPv6 readiness too)!
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