Multiple vhosts with wildcards?

[Phillip B Oldham]

Hi

At the moment we're using lighttpd, but its proving to be a little flaky 
with php-fcgi. I'd like to know whether its possible to get the 
following set-up working so I can replace lighttpd with nginx.

We use a *lot* of wildcard domains. The subdomains correspond to a 
client, and they have their own areas:

review.*.ourdomain.com
mail.*.ourdomain.com
dev.*.ourdomain.com
*.ourdomain.com

This is pretty trivial to set up in lighttpd:

$HTTP["host"] =~ "^review\.(.*)\.ourdomain\.com" {}
$HTTP["host"] =~ "^mail\.(.*)\.ourdomain\.com" {}
$HTTP["host"] =~ "^dev\.(.*)\.ourdomain\.com" {}
$HTTP["host"] =~ "^(.*)\.ourdomain\.com" {}

Trying to set up something similar in nginx raises problems. This is my 
setup:

server {
server_name review.it.ourdomain.com review.*.ourdomain.com;
...
}

server {
server_name dev.it.ourdomain.com dev.*.ourdomain.com;
...
}

but this just throws the following error:

[emerg] 3320#0: invalid server name or wildcard "dev.*.ourdomain.com"

Any idea how I can achieve the result I'm looking for?
-- 

*Phillip B Oldham*
The Activity People
phill at theactivitypeople.co.uk <mailto:phill at theactivitypeople.co.uk>

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