Map FastCGI Ports Dynamically

[Valentin V. Bartenev]

On Thursday 23 February 2012 01:16:33 justin wrote:
> Valentin:
> 
> Here is a snippet of the config:
> 
> server {
>   listen 80;
> 
>   map $user $user_fastcgi_port {
>     default 9000;
>     bob 9001;
>     john 9002;
>     kelly 9003;
>   }
> 
>   server_name $user\.my\.domain\.com$;
> 
>   root /srv/www/users/$user/wp;
> 
>   index index.php;
> 
>   access_log /var/log/nginx/users/$user.access.log;
>   error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
> 
>   include /etc/nginx/excludes.conf;
>   include /etc/nginx/wordpress.conf;
>   include /etc/nginx/expires.conf;
> }
> 
> I am getting the following error though:
> 
> nginx: [emerg] "map" directive is not allowed here in
> /etc/nginx/conf.d/core.conf:4
> nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed
> 

Yeap, if you look at the documentation, you will see:

 map
 - syntax: map $var1 $var2 { ... }
 - default: none
 - context: http

Please, notice that "context: http", therefore you must define "map" block in
the "http" context, not the "server" one. And error log message is trying to
give a hint.

http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpMapModule

 wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev