Multiple vhosts with wildcards?

[Igor Sysoev]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:46:23AM +0000, Phillip B Oldham wrote:

> 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?
> -- 

Use regex (note "~"):

server {
    server_name review.it.ourdomain.com ~^review\..+\.ourdomain\.com$;
    ...
}


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