Plesk – have a custom nginx.conf per Virtual Host

Update: Plesk 12, just create a file called vhost_nginx.conf in the /conf/ directory. No need for the below hack:

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just like you can have a custom vhost.conf and vhost_ssl.conf for apache, here’s how to add this feature for nginx on plesk as well:

# cp /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/templates/default/domain/nginxDomainVirtualHost.php /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/templates/custom/domain/
# vi /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/templates/custom/domain/nginxDomainVirtualHost.php

add this to the very end of the file

<?php
if (file_exists($VAR->domain->physicalHosting->vhostDir . '/conf/nginx.conf')): ?>
 include <?php echo $VAR->domain->physicalHosting->vhostDir;?>/conf/nginx.conf;
<?php endif ?>

now you can create a file called conf/nginx.conf under the plesk virtual host and when running

# /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/httpdmng --reconfigure-all

it will include this file when generating the nginx reverse proxy configuration for each domain.

solution from here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16841163/modify-document-root-for-nginx-proxy-under-plesk

note: when using the plesk migration manager it will copy across this “nginxDomainVirtualHost.php” file but it will not copy across the domain specific nginx.conf files