Adding new site to Ngnix - nginx

Question

I am really new to Nginx, and am to add a new website to a remote Nginx server.
I notice that /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf has been modified to this:
server {
server_name api.example.com;
root /var/www/html/api/public;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
I want to add another url: testapi.example.com to the same server. All the tuturiols point to /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/, but that folder is empty. This is a production machine, so I would not like bring any downtime.
Please help.

Answer 1

You could add another server block to /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf for your second domain or a better way would be to create a new .conf file in /etc/nginx/conf.d/ (with a meaningful name) and in that file define a new server block for the second domain.
So you'd keep your /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
server {
server_name api.example.com;
root /var/www/html/api/public;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
And add /etc/nginx/conf.d/testapi.conf
server {
server_name testapi.example.com;
root /var/www/html/testapi/root;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
... rest of config for second domain...
}