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neubert
Asked: 2013-03-29 07:54:34 +0800 CST

making all subdomains use same document root with nginx

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I have in the *.conf file for my domain the following:

server { 
  listen 80; 
  server_name domain.tld; 
  access_log /var/log/nginx/domain.tld.accesslog; 
  root /var/www/domain.tld; 
  index index.htm index.html;
}

My question is... what if I wanted to make all subdomains use the same document root (and same settings in general) as domain.tld?

I tried this:

server { 
  listen 80; 
  server_name domain.tld; 
  server_name *.domain.tld; 
  access_log /var/log/nginx/domain.tld.accesslog; 
  root /var/www/domain.tld; 
  index index.htm index.html;
}

But that didn't work, even after reloading. Any ideas?

nginx

2 Answers

  1.   server_name domain.tld; 
  server_name *.domain.tld;

    I think the above is the problem. Try this instead:

      server_name domain.tld *.domain.tld;
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  2. Best Answer

    There's special syntax "sugar" to handle this gracefully:

    server { 
    listen 80; 
    server_name .domain.tld; # ← this one's sweety
    access_log /var/log/nginx/domain.tld.accesslog; 
    root /var/www/domain.tld; 
    index index.htm index.html;
}

    but in case you're ex-assembler programmer counting CPU-cycles in your spare time, you might want to trade simplicity of shorter notation for explicit long listing of server's names (10x2 @cnst).

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