Hide raw regular expression from $_SERVER['server_name']

[Igor Sysoev]

On Aug 4, 2013, at 2:07 , justin wrote:

> I am using a regular expression in a server_name:
> 
>         server_name ~^(?!web2\.)(?<account>.+)\.mydomain\.com$;
> 
> In PHP, or any language for that matter, if I:
> 
>        echo $_SERVER['server_name'];
>        //~^(?!web2\.)(?.+)\.mydomain\.com$
> 
> I get the raw regular expression back. Is it possible to mask this, and
> instead return the actual regular expression matchedaccount? I.E.
> foo.mydomain.com.

You should change in your configuration the following string
fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;
to
fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $host;


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