how would i host more than 2 sites on the same port and IP address?

[Francis Daly]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 05:31:55PM -0500, rveerman wrote:

Hi there,

> possible to host more than 2 sites on the same IP and port, distinguishing
> between the sites only by means of the actual server name as it's entered
> into the browser..

You run a single instance of nginx with multiple server{} blocks with
the same "listen" directives but different "server_name" directives.

> specifically, i want to host example.com, v2.example.com, mail.example.com,
> and somesite.com on the same IP and port (443, ssl)..

See the somewhat old
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/configuring_https_servers.html,
especially the "Server Name Indication" part at
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/configuring_https_servers.html#sni

> i really hope this is possible with nginx.

Basically, it Just Works, if the client (browser) is any way adequate
for modern https.

Good luck with it,

	f
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