Dynamic subdomains via nginx

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Dynamic subdomains via nginx

September 21, 2009 | linux, python, tools
author: Karol Zielinski | comments: 0 | views: 1341
Tags: domain, nginx, python, subdomain

Sometimes we need to handle lots of subdomains (e.g. we want to have URLs like someones_login.ourdomain.com). So, lets configure nginx for this kind of situation.

vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/ourdomain.com

and…


server {
        listen 80;
        server_name ourdomain.com;
        rewrite ^(.*) http://www.ourdomain.com permanent;
}

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name www.ourdomain.com *.ourdomain.com;
        location / {
                proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:5001;
                proxy_redirect off;
                proxy_set_header   Host             $host;
                proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For  $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-Ssl  'off';
        }
}

so… we need to add syntax *.ourdomain.com to our server_name.

That’s all. Easy, isn’t it?

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