How to configure multiple websites

[eduardo-g-silva]

This was writen by Marks (the guru) in a comment on his course and save my day...

https://courses.m.academy/courses/487758/lectures/9064349

Change your docker-compose.yml file to:
...
services:
app:
build: images/nginx
...

Create a file at images/nginx/Dockerfile with the contents:

FROM markoshust/magento-nginx:1.18-3

COPY ./conf/default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/

Then create a file at images/nginx/conf/default.conf with the contents:

upstream fastcgi_backend {
server unix:/sock/docker.sock;
}

map $http_host $MAGE_RUN_CODE {
default base;
domain1.test base;
domain2.test other_website; # Put your secondary website code here
# Add any other domains here using the same method
}

server {
listen 8000;
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}

server {
listen 8443 ssl;

ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/certs/nginx.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/certs/nginx.key;

server_name
domain1.test
domain2.test
# And any others...
;

set $MAGE_ROOT /var/www/html;
set $MAGE_RUN_TYPE website;

include /var/www/html/nginx.conf;
}

You will also need to copy your src/nginx.conf.sample file over to src/nginx.conf, and update the contents of this block to include the MAGE_RUN_TYPE and MAGE_RUN_CODE variables:

...
location ~ ^/(index|get|static|errors/report|errors/404|errors/503|health_check).php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass fastcgi_backend;
fastcgi_buffers 1024 4k;

fastcgi_param  PHP_FLAG  "session.auto_start=off \n suhosin.session.cryptua=off";
fastcgi_param  PHP_VALUE "memory_limit=756M \n max_execution_time=18000";
fastcgi_read_timeout 600s;
fastcgi_connect_timeout 600s;

fastcgi_index  index.php;
fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param  MAGE_RUN_TYPE    $MAGE_RUN_TYPE;
fastcgi_param  MAGE_RUN_CODE    $MAGE_RUN_CODE;
include        fastcgi_params;

fastcgi_buffer_size 128k;

}
...

Be sure to also update your docker-compose.dev.yml volume mounts if you are non-linux, so that your nginx reference looks at the new file:

...
services:
app:
volumes: &appvolumes
# Host mounts with performance penalty, only put what is necessary here
- ./src/app/code:/var/www/html/app/code:delegated
...
- ./src/nginx.conf:/var/www/html/nginx.conf:delegated
...

Then, running bin/restart will rebuild the app service with the new Docker container. Hope this helps :)

[st3phani]

I think it would help if there was a configuration in the env/magento.env file.

[markshust]

I agree, something like this would be great. Perhaps a "multisites" param where we can comma-delimit the domains, and it would loop through and update/process the Nginx config. We may want to look into Nginx variables to do this, but I'm a bit out of the loop of how they work. It would also need to be backwards-compatible with single-domain sites.

[mgarciaebo]

(I deleted the previous message as I sent it from another account)

Hello,

I tried to follow several tutorials, including Mark's lesson and still can't run websites using the "folders approach".

Almost all the documentation available on the internet is focussed on subdomains: site1.domain.com/, site2.domain.com/, site3.domain.com/. What I'm trying to configure with no luck is: domain.com/site1/, domain.com/site2/, domain.com/site3/.

I'm not an expert in almost nothing, including Nginx :D however, I know that running sites using the folders configuration is a very common scenario and I wouldn't expect it's this difficult to both: find information about how to implement it using Nginx, and actually making it work.

Can anybody please point me out in the right direction, or give some hints?

Thank you!

[markshust]

I've never done this, and I don't think it's actually as common of a scenario as you think, as I've never come across this 😀. That said, you should be able to use a combination of the multi-sites configuration coupled with proxies. There's also a question if your root domain is a Magento instance itself, which could throw some hiccups into the mix. If not, you would create proxy directives for each path /site1, /site2, etc. and then those are basically treated as separate site configurations just like any other site. You'll also need the base URLs for each instance to match your desired URL setup.

[davemv]

Right now, Mark's tutorial works almost perfect, in my case i added this line inside Dockerfile, so it ends up like this:

FROM markoshust/magento-nginx:1.18-8
COPY --chown=app:app ./conf/default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/

Hope this helps someone.

[mitchkramez]

@davemv this saved us a bunch of time, and appears to be required with the current versions to get multisites working, thanks for sharing! without it, you'll get permissions errors saying that docker cannot modify the file for configuration.

[rubenromao]

Here's what worked for me for 3 websites.

1 - Stop the containers.

2 - Change "compose.yaml" nginx:

services:
  app:
#    image: markoshust/magento-nginx:1.18-8
    build: images/nginx

3 - Change "compose.dev.yaml" to include "nginx.conf":

#      - ./src/nginx.conf.sample:/var/www/html/nginx.conf:cached
      - ./src/nginx.conf:/var/www/html/nginx.conf:delegated

4 - Create "Doxkerfile" under "images/nginx/Dockerfile" with this content:

FROM markoshust/magento-nginx:1.18-8

COPY --chown=app:app ./conf/default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/

5 - Create "default.conf" under "images/nginx/conf/default.conf" and "Doxkerfile" :

upstream fastcgi_backend {
    server unix:/sock/docker.sock;
}

map $http_host $MAGE_RUN_CODE {
    default base;
    domain.local base;
    subdomain1.domain.local mageStoreCodeHere;
    subdomain2.domain.local mageStoreCodeHere;
}

server {
    listen 8000;
    return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}

server {
    listen [::]:8443 ssl http2 ipv6only=on;
    listen 8443 ssl http2;

    ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/certs/nginx.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/certs/nginx.key;

    server_name domain.local subdomain1.domain.local subdomain2.domain.local;

    set $MAGE_ROOT /var/www/html;
    set $MAGE_RUN_TYPE website;

    fastcgi_buffer_size 64k;
    fastcgi_buffers 8 128k;

    include /var/www/html/nginx[.]conf;
}

6 - Change "nginx.conf" PHP entry like this:

# PHP entry point for main application
location ~ ^/(index|get|static|errors/report|errors/404|errors/503|health_check)\.php$ {
    try_files $uri =404;
    fastcgi_pass   fastcgi_backend;

    fastcgi_param  PHP_FLAG  "session.auto_start=off \n suhosin.session.cryptua=off";
    fastcgi_param  PHP_VALUE "memory_limit=756M \n max_execution_time=18000";
    fastcgi_read_timeout 600s;
    fastcgi_connect_timeout 600s;

    fastcgi_index  index.php;
    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    fastcgi_param MAGE_RUN_TYPE $MAGE_RUN_TYPE;
    fastcgi_param MAGE_RUN_CODE $MAGE_RUN_CODE;

    include        fastcgi_params;
}

7 - Start the containers "bin/start"
I strongly recommend to remove the existing nginx images volumes and containers before start.

8 - Setup the domains (I ran for all of them but tbh I don't know if it is needed)
bin/setup-domain domain.local
bin/setup-domain subdomain1.domain.local
bin/setup-domain subdomain2.domain.local

9 - Change your database URLs by replacing the base URLs for each website scope with your domains:
bin/n98-magerun2 db:query "UPDATE `core_config_data` SET `value` = REPLACE(`value`, 'website1, 'domain.local')"
bin/n98-magerun2 db:query "UPDATE `core_config_data` SET `value` = REPLACE(`value`, 'website2, 'subdomain1.domain.local')"
bin/n98-magerun2 db:query "UPDATE `core_config_data` SET `value` = REPLACE(`value`, 'website3, 'subdomain2.domain.local')"

10 - Flush the cache
bin/magento c:f

That's it.
I think I haven't miss anything.

Cheers

[rubenromao]

Is it working ?

[rubenromao]

the file user and group should be app:app and only the root user can do that.
Not sure how I achieve that...
Do it that way and then go into the app container as root and change the ownership of the file if it isn't app:app you will need to run chown app:app /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

[bhushanmeetanshi]

yes its working with this first approach of dockerfile

1 COPY ./conf/default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/ (work)
2. COPY --chown=app:app ./conf/default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf (not work)

i don't know whats difference between this 2 different approach. thats why im asking

[bhushanmeetanshi]

finally add your approach and restart containers and see that your approach also worked..

Thanks....

[rubenromao]

Glad it helped mate!
Cheers