Matching server host name in location directive

[Quintin Par]

Thanks. This seems a bit crude, especially when you have a long server
tag. A change/bug in one server tag will now have to to replicated to
the x sub domains/server_names.
I was looking for an elegant solution without a lot of conf files.

-Quintin.

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Francis Daly <francis at daoine.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 11:19:23AM +0530, Quintin Par wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
>>   I have nginx running multiple domains under a single server directive as
>>   server {
>>           listen       80;
>>           server_name  www.domain.com;
>>           server_name  x.domain.com;
> <snip>
>
>>   Now, I need to use location directive to match a subdomain and apply basic
>>   auth to it. The equivalent of
>
> location doesn't match subdomains. server_name matches subdomains. Use
> different server{}s for different things.
>
>>   location x.domain.com {
>>           auth_basic "Admin Login";
>>          auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/.htpasswd;
>>   }
>>
>>   How do I do this using DRY?
>
> make.
>
> Or m4. Or a config file generator of your choice.
>
> nginx doesn't care how your .conf file came about, it just cares about
> what is in the .conf file when it is loaded.
>
> Don't worry about duplication or repetition in the generated output
> file. If you want to worry about repetition, do it in your input format.
>
> Good luck,
>
>        f
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> Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org
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