I have a scenario in which I use Windows and Ubuntu on the same machine, and I want my sites to be shared across the OS. I have created a directory called 'common-sites' on my D drive, and I have configured the Drupal site with the domain drupal-demo-8.com.
My Ubuntu has an nginx web server. I want my common-sites to be available for Ubuntu as well.
Approach
In this post, we will configure the aquia/BT Drupal 8 project on the nginx webserver and Ubuntu OS without using Drupal VM. I am assuming you have already installed the following:
How to setup Drupal 8 multisite on an Nginx web server using different domains? In this example, we are going to use three different domains for our Drupal-8 multi-site ex: drupal-main.com, drupal-first.com, and drupal-second.com. Here, drupal-main.com will be the main site pointing to our Drupal-8 installation, while two others will be pointing to the directories site1 and site2 respectively.
The directory structure will be as follows:
Setup an nginx webserver with a Drupal installation and phpMyAdmin. I am assuming that you have already installed the Nginx web server on Ubuntu 16.04/RHEL.
Nginx is a web server for serving static content, but we are going to use it for Drupal 7.x and 8.x websites. In order to configure it, we need an additional service for PHP support, i.e. php-fpm.