Hosting Operations
Read-onlyShow Enabled Nginx Sites
You need to see which Nginx site configs are actually enabled.
Command
ls -l /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/Before you run this
System impact: Read-only. Low when scoped to the shown target.
When not to use it: Do not delete symlinks from this list unless you know the site should be disabled.
Expected output
Enabled site config filenames or symlink targets.
System impact
Read-only. Nothing changes. The command lists enabled config symlinks.
May require elevated permissions on protected paths or service-owned files.
Recovery / rollback: no state is changed.
When to use it
Use this when a server block edit seems ignored.
When not to use it
Do not delete symlinks from this list unless you know the site should be disabled.
next steps
Related commands
List Nginx Listen Directives
The site was configured, but the port was not.
grep -RInE '^[[:space:]]*listen[[:space:]]' /etc/nginx/conf.d /etc/nginx/sites-enabled 2>/dev/null
Show Enabled Apache Sites
The Apache config existed. The enabled symlink did not.
find /etc/apache2/sites-enabled -maxdepth 1 -type l -printf '%f -> %l\n' 2>/dev/null | sort
Show Nginx Include Lines
The config was valid; it just was not included.
grep -RInE '^[[:space:]]*include[[:space:]]' /etc/nginx/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d /etc/nginx/sites-enabled 2>/dev/null
Find the Nginx Default Server
The wrong site answered because it was the fallback.
grep -RIn 'default_server' /etc/nginx/conf.d /etc/nginx/sites-enabled 2>/dev/null
Map Nginx Proxy Targets
Nginx was healthy. It was proxying to the wrong place.
grep -RInE '^[[:space:]]*proxy_pass[[:space:]]' /etc/nginx/conf.d /etc/nginx/sites-enabled 2>/dev/null
Study mapping
Use this as independent command practice: read the notes, predict the output, then compare it with the example before using a real shell.
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