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<font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi<br>
<br>
At the moment we're using lighttpd, but its proving to be a little
flaky with php-fcgi. I'd like to know whether its possible to get the
following set-up working so I can replace lighttpd with nginx.<br>
<br>
We use a *lot* of wildcard domains. The subdomains correspond to a
client, and they have their own areas:<br>
<br>
review.*.ourdomain.com<br>
mail</font></font><font size="-1"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">.*.ourdomain.com<br>
dev</font></font><font size="-1"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">.*.ourdomain.com<br>
</font></font><font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">*.ourdomain.com<br>
<br>
This is pretty trivial to set up in lighttpd:<br>
<br>
$HTTP["host"] =~ "^review\.(.*)\.ourdomain\.com" {}<br>
</font></font><font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">$HTTP["host"]
=~ "^mail\.(.*)\.ourdomain\.com" {}<br>
</font></font><font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">$HTTP["host"]
=~ "^dev\.(.*)\.ourdomain\.com" {}<br>
</font></font><font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">$HTTP["host"]
=~ "^(.*)\.ourdomain\.com" {}<br>
<br>
Trying to set up something similar in nginx raises problems. This is my
setup:<br>
<br>
</font></font><font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">server
{<br>
server_name review.it.ourdomain.com review.*.ourdomain.com;<br>
...<br>
}<br>
<br>
</font></font><font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">server
{<br>
server_name </font></font><font size="-1"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">dev</font></font><font size="-1"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">.it.ourdomain.com </font></font><font
size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">dev</font></font><font
size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">.*.ourdomain.com;<br>
...<br>
}<br>
<br>
but this just throws the following error:<br>
<br>
[emerg] 3320#0: invalid server name or wildcard "dev.*.ourdomain.com"<br>
<br>
Any idea how I can achieve the result I'm looking for?</font></font><font
size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
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<p><strong>Phillip B Oldham</strong><br>
The Activity People<br>
<a href="mailto:phill@theactivitypeople.co.uk">phill@theactivitypeople.co.uk</a></p>
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