Remove URI string?

[daveyfx]

Hello all -

I would like to strip all request_uri strings for a group of server names
and serve up an index page.
Example:

Client requests http://host1.domain.com/blah, nginx will direct client to
http://host1.domain.com and serve the index page.  Same scenario for host2 -
I would like nginx to direct client to http://host2.domain.com and serve the
same index page.

Would the below work?

server {
    server_name host1.domain.com host2.domain.com;
    rewrite ^ http://$server_name;
    root /path/to/document/root;
    index index.html;
}

Thank you!

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,234822,234822#msg-234822