php, $_SERVER & server_name

[Michael Shadle]

$host is the same as $http_host?

fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $http_host;

i've had that in there forever.

just like $uri is short for $request_uri right?

this should be documented better somewhere

2009/8/31 Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 03:58:28PM -0500, AMP Admin wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to list a bunch of domains under server_name.  I'm doing this
>> because these domains generate dynamic content based on their name.  it
>> seems to work fine except for one thing... $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] just
>> displays the first server_name entry.
>>
>> So say we have the following:
>>
>> server_name   *.example1.com *.example2.com *.example3.com;
>>
>> echo $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']; displays *.example1.com regardless which
>> domain was entered into the browser.
>
> You need to change
>
> -fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;
> +fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $host;
>
> in fastcgi_params.
>
>
> --
> Igor Sysoev
> http://sysoev.ru/en/
>
>