Question Plesk nginx coexistence with own nginx configurations

[Juergen Schneider]

Server operating system version

Ubuntu 22.04

Plesk version and microupdate number

Plesk Obsidian Web Admin Edition Version 18.0.68 Update #2

Hi all, I like Plesk very much and use the browser based web access as well. However I do have a couple of own nginx and node.js based websites, which I migrated into the Plesk Server (Linux Ubuntu 22.4). My sites use also node.js and the setup is not that easy than I want to change it right now. For that I have a couple of own xxx.conf in /etc/nginx/conf.d beside your zz010_psa_nginx.conf. I would like to co-exist with the Plesk website. In zz010 Plesk includes the /etc/nginx/plesk.conf.d/server.conf, which always takes port 80 and 443 over my websites resulting in an invalid certificate (plesk instead of mine). I temporarily changed the server.conf to make my and Plesk website running fine. However Plesk will overrule these changes again, e.g. when Plesk renews its certificate (I guess). So my question is there an easy way that my websites and the Plesk website (which I like) can simply co-exist avoiding any further integration of my existing sites into the Plesk nginx settings. For example I could change the zz010.. conf, but this may be overwriten as well. Any advice ?

 

[Kaspar]

You can customize the nginx configuration by creating custom template for the nginx configuration. More info can be found on the Plesk documentation page: Changing Virtual Hosts Settings Using Configuration Templates

 

[Juergen Schneider]

Thanks Kaspar, will have a deeper look, and my quick first review sounds like my solution. I want to minimize the risk of an outage in particular for my 'business' Web Page and actually since everything is running, actually on the first shot I want to disable the automatic rebuild until I have your proposed final solution. Is that is possible ?

 

[Juergen Schneider]

You can customize the nginx configuration by creating custom template for the nginx configuration. More info can be found on the Plesk documentation page: Changing Virtual Hosts Settings Using Configuration Templates

Kaspar, thank you so much, I think with this templating approach, I can solve my problem.. you can mark this query as resolved. Looking a bit further, I am still struggling why this ever happened, resulting in a server_name _;. I found the template code here..

<?php if (!$VAR->panel->isDefaultAccessDomain) { ?>
server_name <?= $VAR->quote($VAR->panel->accessDomainName) ?>;
<?php } else { ?>
server_name _;
<?php } ?>

How can I correctly set the $VAR->panel settings.

Thanks again !

 

[Kaspar]

I am not sure what you're trying to accomplish? What exact setting are you trying to access in the template?

 

[Juergen Schneider]

Hey Kaspar thanks, actually I have the Template running fine and the rebuild now produces a server.conf in which the server_name is not just _; but has the correct domain name. See the attached file.
But your question is very good.. I am still struggling why I had this problem and what I made wrong initially, meaning I have now a running system, although I don't know what went wrong initially.