nginx listen to $hostname doesn't work, is it supported?

[Joshua Zhu]

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 5:01 AM, coral <nginx-forum at nginx.us> wrote:

> n my nginx conf file, I have :
>
>   listen       80;
>     server_name  $hostname;
>
>  if I do netstat I see that it is listening on 0.0.0.0:80 , is there any
> workaround in nginx.conf , to make it listen to $hostname:80  ?  where
> $hostname is coming from system ?
>
> I tried multiple combinations with no success so far.
>

Why not just use 'localhost'? For example:
    listen localhost:80;

Regards,

-- 
Joshua Zhu
Senior Software Engineer
Server Platforms Team at Taobao
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