NginX as HTTPS reverse proxy for multiple sub-domains? - linux

Question

I have one IP address on my Linux box, and would like to serve HTTPS websites in this form:
https://landing.example.com
https://site-01.example.com/index.html
https://site-01.example.com/files/index.html
https://site-01.example.com/store/index.html
https://site-02.example.com/index.html
https://site-02.example.com/files/index.html
https://site-02.example.com/store/index.html
Each of these websites is a Docker container on the same host, so my idea were setting up an NginX reverse proxy Docker container.
There are many howto's about NginX as reverse proxy, but what I want to do is different from the text book example, as I have HTTPS, multiple sub-domains and multiple URL's.
Questions
Does anyone know of howto's that deal with this type of setup, or perhaps can tell me what the technical key words I should search for are?
At this point I don't know where to start, so any help will be much appreciated.

Answer 1

You need to add A-records to you DNS manager that will redirect all your subdomains to the IP address of the host machine.
Then in your NGINX config you can do something like this.
server {
listen 80;
server_name landing.example.com;
location /static {
alias /home/example-dir/staticfiles;
}
access_log /home/example-dir/nginx-access.log;
error_log /home/example-dir/nginx-error.log info;
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name site-01.example.com;
location /static {
alias /home/example-dir2/staticfiles;
}
}