Trellis with Nginx Virtual Hosts on a single Digital Ocean Droplet

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Hi,

I’m completely new to Trellis, Sage & Bedrock, but after watching @jlengstorf’s great tutorial on Yotube (for those that haven’t seen it: https://youtu.be/Ls30HGKru8A), I believe this is the fastest WP deployment I’ve seen in my life. So many thanks, @jlengstorf!

Still, I have a question. I have multiple websites pointing to the same Digital Ocean droplet & I’ve configured virtual hosts on Nginx, so that their root directories are pointing to /var/www//html. Is there a configuration file I have to change in order to have deploying work in this case or does Trellis/Nginx just figure it out of the box?

Many thanks for your responses.

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Trellis provisions a server for you, so you’re not going to be running/using Trellis on an existing server with vhosts.

You’ll use Trellis to setup the server entirely, including all virtual hosts.

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Thanks for your response. I have gained some more understanding into the stack. If I can bug you with a few more questions:

  1. Is an existing server with virtual hosts then a use case where you’d use Bedrock without Trellis or no?

  2. What would be the best way to pick up Roots best practices, any particular part of the documentation/book you can recommend?

I’m just wondering if having all my personal & client websites in one central repository (therefore on a single droplet) is the best idea or just a newbie mistake before I adapt to the new way of thinking. Or is there a way to then push to different production servers?

Thanks,
g

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I would be interested in the correct config to setup say a staging server that had multiple hosts on it. that way i would only need one droplet for staging all my projects but the would be deployed to different production servers?

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You shouldn’t do this.

You can define multiple WordPress sites if you want multiple projects on one server.

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why? Is there any reason why roots.io wouldn’t support this kind of setup?

I would have a canonical host of aaaa.com and redirects for xxx.aaaa.com, yyyy.aaaa.com etc