How to properly raise a site on nginx?

Question

Nginx

I'm trying to build a website with nginx.
nginx itself is installed on ubuntu 18.04, which in turn is lifted by vagrant'om
Here is the content of vagrantfile

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
      config.vm.box = "bento/ubuntu-18.04"
      config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8080
      config.vm.synced_folder "C:/vagrant/projects", "/var/www"
    end

The /var/www/ folder has a site.test folder with an index.html file containing `hello world`
Content /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

# Default server configuration
    #
    server {
            listen 80;
            listen [::]:80;
    
            # SSL configuration
            #
            # listen 443 ssl default_server;
            # listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
            #
            # Note: You should disable gzip for SSL traffic.
            # See: https://bugs.debian.org/773332
            #
            # Read up on ssl_ciphers to ensure a secure configuration.
            # See: https://bugs.debian.org/765782
            #
            # Self signed certs generated by the ssl-cert package
            # Don't use them in a production server!
            #
            # include snippets/snakeoil.conf;
    
            root /var/www/html;
    
            # Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
            index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
    
            server_name _;
    
            location / {
                    # First attempt to serve request as file, then
                    # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
                    try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
            }
    
            location ~ \.php$ {
                    include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
            #       # With php-fpm (or other unix sockets):
                    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
            #       # With php-cgi (or other tcp sockets):
            #       fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
            }
    
            # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
            # concurs with nginx's one
            #
            #location ~ /\.ht {
            #       deny all;
            #}
    
    }
    
    # Virtual Host configuration for example.com
    #
    # You can move that to a different file under sites-available/ and symlink that
    # to sites-enabled/ to enable it.
    #
    #server {
    #       listen 80;
    #       listen [::]:80;
    #
    #       server_name example.com;
    #
    #       root /var/www/example.com;
    #       index index.html;
    #
    #       location / {
    #               try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    #       }
    #}

and the contents of /etc/nginx/sites-available/site.test

# Default server configuration
    #
    server {
            listen 80;
            listen [::]:80;
    
            # SSL configuration
            #
            # listen 443 ssl default_server;
            # listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
            #
            # Note: You should disable gzip for SSL traffic.
            # See: https://bugs.debian.org/773332
            #
            # Read up on ssl_ciphers to ensure a secure configuration.
            # See: https://bugs.debian.org/765782
            #
            # Self signed certs generated by the ssl-cert package
            # Don't use them in a production server!
            #
            # include snippets/snakeoil.conf;
    
            root /var/www/site.test;
    
            # Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
            index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
    
            server_name site.test;
    
            location / {
                    # First attempt to serve request as file, then
                    # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
                    try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
            }
    
    
            location ~ \.php$ {
                    include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
    
                    # With php-fpm (or other unix sockets):
                    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
                    # With php-cgi (or other tcp sockets):
                    #fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
            }
    
            # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
            # concurs with nginx's one
            #
            #location ~ /\.ht {
            #       deny all;
            #}
    
    }
    
    # Virtual Host configuration for example.com
    #
    # You can move that to a different file under sites-available/ and symlink that
    # to sites-enabled/ to enable it.
    #
    #server {
    #       listen 80;
    #       listen [::]:80;
    #
    #       server_name example.com;
    #
    #       root /var/www/example.com;
    #       index index.html;
    #
    #       location / {
    #               try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    #       }
    #}

When I try to curl site.test, I get the following message:
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: site.test
When I try to go to site.test:8080 in chrome, the site doesn't load.
Chrome gives an error ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED This is the
first time I'm trying to raise a site on nginx, tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

localhost:8080
Or you can use the vagrant-hostmanager plugin
https://github.com/devopsgroup-io/vagrant-hostmanager