server_name not working as intended ?

[Brice Figureau]

Hi,

I'm discovering nginx, and it is a really good product.
I'm willing to replace my old heavly patched thttpd with nginx, but I'm
stumbling accross the following issue:

...
http {
    access_log	/var/log/nginx/access.log;
    server {
        listen       8095;
        server_name  www.domain1.com;
        root /var/www/www.domain1.com;
    }
    server {
        listen       8095;
        server_name  www.domain2.com *;
        root /var/www/www.domain2.com;
    }
 }
...

The intended behavior is that any request for www.domain1.com will be
served from /var/www/www.domain1.com and every _other_ requests have to
be server from /var/www/www.domain2.com (including those reqeusts with
$http_host=www.domain2.com).

But, nginx (currently running 0.5.16), does serve any requests other
than www.domain1.com or www.domain2.com from the first virtual host (the
one whose root is /var/www/www.domain1.com). Request with a defined (in
a server_name) http host are served from their respective virtual host.

It all appears as if the '*' in the second server_name was attributed to
the first virtual host and not the second one.

In the following example: anything.domain1.com, www.domain1.com are
resolving to the same IP address.

Extract of error.log (non-working):
...
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 http request line: "GET /nginx.txt HTTP/1.1"
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 http uri: "/nginx.txt"
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 http args: ""
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 http exten: "txt"
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 http process request header line
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 http header: "Host: anything.domain1.com:8095"
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 http header: "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.11) Gecko/20070324 (Debian-1.8.0.11-2) Galeon/2.0.2 (Debian package 2.0.2-4)"
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 http header: "Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5"
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 http header: "Accept-Language: en"
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 http header: "Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate"
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 http header: "Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-15,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7"
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 http header: "Keep-Alive: 300"
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 http header: "Connection: keep-alive"
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 http header done
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 event timer del: 3: 600223917
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 generic phase: 0
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 generic phase: 1
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 find location for "/nginx.txt"
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 using configuration ""
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 http cl:-1 max:1048576
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 generic phase: 3
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 post rewrite phase: 4
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 generic phase: 5
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 generic phase: 6
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 access phase: 7
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 access phase: 8
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 post access phase: 9
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 content phase: 10
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 content phase: 11
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 content phase: 12
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 http set discard body
2007/04/24 15:26:43 [debug] 6047#0: *15 http filename: "/var/www/www.domain1.com/nginx.txt"
...

Extract of error.log:
...
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 http request line: "GET /nginx.txt HTTP/1.1"
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 http uri: "/nginx.txt"
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 http args: ""
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 http exten: "txt"
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 http process request header line
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 http header: "Host: www.domain2.com:8095"
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 http header: "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.11) Gecko/20070324 (Debian-1.8.0.11-2) Galeon/2.0.2 (Debian package 2.0.2-4)"
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 http header: "Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5"
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 http header: "Accept-Language: en"
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 http header: "Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate"
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 http header: "Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-15,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7"
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 http header: "Keep-Alive: 300"
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 http header: "Connection: keep-alive"
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 http header done
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 event timer del: 3: 600357295
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 generic phase: 0
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 generic phase: 1
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 find location for "/nginx.txt"
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 using configuration ""
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 http cl:-1 max:1048576
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 generic phase: 3
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 post rewrite phase: 4
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 generic phase: 5
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 generic phase: 6
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 access phase: 7
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 access phase: 8
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 post access phase: 9
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 content phase: 10
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 content phase: 11
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 content phase: 12
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 http set discard body
2007/04/24 15:28:56 [debug] 6047#0: *16 http filename: "/var/www/www.domain2.com/nginx.txt"
...

Any idea ?
Thanks,
-- 
Brice Figureau <brice+nginx at daysofwonder.com>