Virtual hosts in Nginx on FreeBSD

Virtual hosts in Nginx

Go to Nginx configuration files directory
cd /usr/local/etc/nginx
mkdir -p conf.d/
vi nginx.conf

Add following include directive at the end of the file before the closing } tag.
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;

Check configuration using command
nginx -t

If there are no errors run following command
service nginx restart

For adding virtual hosts

cd /usr/local/etc/nginx/conf.d/
vi app.example.com.conf

Add following configuration and save the conf file

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  app.example.com;
    root   /usr/local/www/app.example.com/;
    index  index.html index.htm;
    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }
Deny access to .htaccess if available
    location ~ /.ht {
       deny  all;
    }
}

mkdir -p /usr/local/www/app.example.com/
vi /usr/local/www/app.example.com/index.html 
service nginx restart