Map FastCGI Ports Dynamically

[Valentin V. Bartenev]

On Wednesday 22 February 2012 06:58:09 justin wrote:
> I have a config file that handles wildcard subdomains like:
> 
> server_name ~^(?<user>.+)\.mydomain\.com$;
> 
> Then the variable $user contains the subdomain. The problem, is that I
> also need to dynamically set the port that fastcgi passes PHP work too
> since each user has their own PHP-FPM pool.
> 
> fastcgi_pass php1.local.mydomain.com:XXXX;
> 
> Is there a way to setup a hashmap of something like:
> 
> user          fastcgi-port
> --------       ---------------
> bob            9001
> john           9002
> kelly           9003
> 
> So that nginx can do some magic like:
> 
> set $user_port = map($user);
> 
> fastcgi_pass php1.local.mydomain.com:$user_port;
> 

Do you know about the "map" directive?

http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpMapModule

 wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev