invalid default_server parrameter

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 02:10:47PM -0500, Joel Parker wrote:

> I have many servers sending ssl which I am trying to terminate. So I wanted
> to create a statement that was a catch all instead of listening for each ip
> address. I thought this would do it :
> 
> server {
> 
>       listen 443 ssl  default_server;
> 
> ......
> 
> }
> 
> but when I run nginx -t, I keep getting the error : nginx: [emerg] the
> invalid "default_server" parameter in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:13
> 
> Is this the correct way of doing a catch all incoming ssl traffic and what
> is wrong with my syntax ?

Are you trying to use it in a stream{} block?  There are no 
virtual servers in the stream module, so the "listen" directive 
has no "default_server" parameter - it is not needed, all 
connections to the given listening socket will be handled in only 
one server{} block.

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Maxim Dounin
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