Hi, i've installed Nginx on my linode on ubuntu...
i have a domain name and i am hosting a site.
But i also want to have some separate sites for testing, sites for which i don't have a domain name, so my question is:
Can i have sites that can be accessed like "myipaddress/mytestsite"?
like i did in apache where i could host sites in localhost/mysite1 and have access to them from anywhere replacing "localhost" with my ip address.

I've been trying to do so by adding a new location to sites-enabled/default but nothing happened.

Thank you

Just use server_name "" (or don't put a server_name line at all).

thanx i'll try that out, but why it doesn't work the way /phpmyadmin works?

to make that work i just had to add the following to a file in sites-enabled

location /phpmyadmin {
root /usr/share/;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
location ~ ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.php)$ {
try_files $uri =404;
root /usr/share/;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
}
location ~* ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html|xml|txt))$ {
root /usr/share/;
}
}

Do you have php-fpm running and listening on port 9000?
Are you sure the files for phpMyAdmin are in /usr/share/ (I'd guess they're a bit deeper than that)?
Does the user running php-fpm have access to those files?

you are right, the root for phpmyadmin would be /usr/share/phpmyadmin/
But that is working fine..
How can i check how's php-fpm is working?

Also, where should i put the server_name ""; ?
in a new file? in default? in the same default server{} block?

Thanks for the help!

In the server block. You can check if php-fpm is working by typing netstat -nl and checking if there is something listening on IPv4 port 9000.

Here it is:
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:9000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN


here is the first part of my server block in default
i added a new location there /biogas but that is doing nothing...
clueless

server {
listen 80 default;
server_name localhost;
server_name "";
access_log /var/log/nginx/localhost.access.log;

location / {
root /var/www/nginx-default/;
index index.html index.htm;
}

location /doc {
root /usr/share;
autoindex on;
allow 127.0.0.1;
deny all;
}

location /images {
root /usr/share;
autoindex on;
}

location /biogas {
root /srv/www/biogas/public_html;
autoindex on;
}

Try removing server_name localhost;

This is what i get when i do that and restart nginx:

Restarting nginx: [emerg]: the first server name must not be empty in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:9

Then give it multiple names, but on the same line:

server_name mydomainname.com *.mydomainname.com "";

or

server_name localhost "";

Still not working...i'm lost
this should be an easy task, do i have to change something in etc/hosts?