An issue that I have ran into numerous times in the past has been how to redirect multiple domains all to a single primary domain name. I decided it was finally time to document how this is done for my future reference and anyone else.

In your NGINX config file for your site this is the code that will do the magic:

server {

    listen       80;
    server_name  ...

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One of the easiest ways to install NGINX is from Debian's package manager, but if you check the version you will notice it is pre 1.x. 

A very easy way to get the latest NGINX version installed is by using NGINX's source servers.

 

First add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file

deb http://nginx.org/packages/d...

Often times when reimaging a current server the ssh key will change and you will get a similar message to the following:

 

The easiest way to solve this is to issue the following command:

ssh-keygen -R HOSTNAME/IP

This will remove the record from the ssh file without you having to remove the entire known_hosts file.

 

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