Dynamic Mass vhosts / reverse proxying

[Antonio P.P. Almeida]

> I'm trying to configure mass (300+) dynamic vhosts and reverse proxying.
>
> users come in at: https://test.abc.example.com and should be transparantly
> proxied to: http://foo.abc.somethingelse.net
>
> Anyone who has this kind of config running ?
> - tried regular expressions
> - wildcard certificate available

Look up the map directive:

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_map_module.html#map

I think it's the most suitable thing for your setup.

--appa