redirecting the default website to panel login page

[eagles051387]

I have nginx acting as a reverse proxy to apache. If I go to panel.domain.com for example it takes me to a clients website instead. What do I need to do to be able to redirect that to the vesta cp login page instead?

[drMacFaulty]

Have you deleted default.domain? Everything incorrect will normally be redirected here (because it was first in the list). You can redirect them by creating a config file in /etc/nginx/conf.d (Debian location) with the name 000-default or any other digit that is smaller than the other files in there (this ensures it will be loaded first) and make in that server block inside the file you created a redirect to your vesta panel domain.

For example:

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server {
    listen 80;
    # Make server_name invalid, so that it doesn't match anything you already defined
    server_name _;
    
    # Redirect without query string
    return 301 http://your-panel-domain-name-here.com;
    # Redirect with query string
    return 301 http://your-panel-domain-name-here.com$request_uri;
}

Source: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRewriteModule#return

Hope this helps

[eagles051387]

I have nginx as a reverse proxy not Do I still need to put a virtual host there or at apache as apache is the default webserver

[drMacFaulty]

I have nginx as a reverse proxy not Do I still need to put a virtual host there or at apache as apache is the default webserver

The web browser of the client talks to Nginx (as Apache is the back-end application server). So I still recommend to use it on the Nginx side. Though, if you wish, you can also add an Apache virtualhost.

[eagles051387]

Have you deleted default.domain? Everything incorrect will normally be redirected here (because it was first in the list). You can redirect them by creating a config file in /etc/nginx/conf.d (Debian location) with the name 000-default or any other digit that is smaller than the other files in there (this ensures it will be loaded first) and make in that server block inside the file you created a redirect to your vesta panel domain.

For example:

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server {
    listen 80;
    # Make server_name invalid, so that it doesn't match anything you already defined
    server_name _;
    
    # Redirect without query string
    return 301 http://your-panel-domain-name-here.com;
    # Redirect with query string
    return 301 http://your-panel-domain-name-here.com$request_uri;
}

Source: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRewriteModule#return

Hope this helps

Would you mind giving an example obviously with dummy data of what this should look like as I am a bit lost since I am more familiar with apache