Accept all server_name's except empty

[Igor Sysoev]

On Sep 23, 2011, at 11:24 , yamanyar wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> How can I set up my nginx configuration file so that it will accept all
> request; however it will deny if "host" header is not added?

server {
    server_name  "";  # no host header field in request
    return 444;
}

server {
    server_name  _;
    ...
}

> Also currently I am logging bytes_send per "host" and then take sum of
> them with a cron job monthly. Is there a better way to achieve this?

Currently no.


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