Sub-domains only server for web application?

[António P. P. Almeida]

On 20 Nov 2011 09h05 WET, nginx-forum at nginx.us wrote:

> Our website currently runs wordpress to manage the front end site
> www.example.com
>
> When users register they get a subdomain username.example.com where
> they can login to our application. The application is built on zend
> framework. I'd like to have the zf project on an entirely different
> server than where we run the wordpress www.example.com domain.

If I understand correctly. Try:

server { # frontend
    listen [::]:80 default_server;
    server_name www.example.com;
}

server { # backend
    listen [::]:80;
    server_name *.example.com;
}

Check: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/server_names.html

> How would the default server config be setup since the front end
> site is on another server with different IP? Virtual hosts would be
> setup as usual, i'm just not sure how to configure the main server
> so it redirects to www.example.com? Any help is appreciated

--- appa