Behavior of server depends on a file name

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 07:15:08PM +1000, Dave Cheney wrote:

> The default site for a listener is the site marked
> 
> server {
> 	listen 80 default;
> }
> 
> if no servers are marked default then the first server defined (which  
> depends on the order that include /*.conf is evaluated) will be the  
> default server.
> 
> I get around this problem by defining a site called default.conf which  
> includes the listen 80 default; stanza.

Yes, this is second way: use default in listen.

> Cheers
> 
> Dave
> 
> On 12/09/2008, at 6:59 PM, Gregor Jurgele wrote:
> 
> >Hello
> >
> >I would like to run a few virtual sites on one IP on nginx 0.6.32  
> >compiled from source as Debian package on Debian Etch.
> >
> >My nginx.conf contents are:
> >
> >user www-data;
> >worker_processes  1;
> >
> >error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log;
> >pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;
> >
> >events {
> >    worker_connections  1024;
> >}
> >
> >http {
> >    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
> >    default_type  application/octet-stream;
> >
> >    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log;
> >
> >    sendfile        on;
> >    #tcp_nopush     on;
> >
> >    #keepalive_timeout  0;
> >    keepalive_timeout  65;
> >    tcp_nodelay        on;
> >
> >    gzip  on;
> >
> >    server_tokens     off;
> >
> >    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
> >    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
> >}
> >
> >My virtual site file (www.bona-a.com) contents are:
> >
> >server {
> >        listen   80;
> >        server_name  www.bona-a.com;
> >
> >        access_log  /var/log/nginx/www.bona-a.com.access.log;
> >
> >        location / {
> >                root   /var/www/www.bona-a.com;
> >                index  default.html default.htm index.html index.htm;
> >        }
> >
> >        # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on  
> >127.0.0.1:9000
> >        #
> >        #location ~ \.php$ {
> >                #fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
> >                #fastcgi_index  index.php;
> >                #fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /scripts 
> >$fastcgi_script_name;
> >                #includefastcgi_params;
> >        #}
> >}
> >
> >If I name a file or symbolic link in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/, that  
> >holds the information for a virtual site, www.bona-a.com, this site  
> >becomes a catch-all site, answering all requests that go to the same  
> >ip and do not match any of the sites defined in other files in /etc/ 
> >nginx/sites-enabled/.
> >
> >Same is if I replace -a with - followed by any letter between b and  
> >d (including). If I name the file www.bona-e.com or www.bona.com,  
> >everything works fine and i get 403 Forbidden as a reply.
> >
> >What am I doing wrong?
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Gregor

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