Nginx dynamic virtual hosts

nginxvirtualhost

With nginx is there a method to setup mass dynamic virtual hosts similar to the way apache2 can be configured? I'm setting up an saas application each user will have their own subdomain and i'd like to use nginx over apache2.

Thanks

Code below should be how to configure

map $http_host $subdir {
hostnames;
default "default";
.foo.bar.com "foo";
.baz.bar.com "baz";
}

server {
root /path/to/$subdir;

}

Best Answer

Yes, setting up virtual hosts is definitely possible, please check Nginx documentation on server configuration directive and default config samples. The easiest way is to put server config sections in separate files under /etc/nginx/conf.d and to include them by a pattern, like include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf; in the main nginx config file.

Correct way in new versions of nginx

Turn out my first answer to this question was correct at certain time, but it turned into another pitfall - to stay up to date please check Taxing rewrite pitfalls

I have been corrected by many SE users, so the credit goes to them, but more importantly, here is the correct code:

server {
       listen         80;
       server_name    my.domain.com;
       return         301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}

server {
       listen         443 ssl;
       server_name    my.domain.com;
       # add Strict-Transport-Security to prevent man in the middle attacks
       add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000" always; 

       [....]
}

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Correct way in new versions of nginx

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