Nginx Auto Domain Redirection

Question

I'm trying to setup Nginx config to auto redirect any domain/subdomain pointed(CNAME) to my static subdomain(site.domain.com) to a respective directory inside /var/www. The directory will be named after the pointed domain/subdomain. I don't want to use VirtualHost or alter/restart Nginx everytime someone add new domain.

I stumble upon this answer but I still don't quite understand. What should I set as root directory?

current config :

server {
    server_name site.domain.com;
    listen 80 default_server;
    root /var/www/;
    index index.html index.htm;
}

possible duplicate of [Dynamic nginx domain root path based on hostname?](http://serverfault.com/questions/457196/dynamic-nginx-domain-root-path-based-on-hostname) — Michael Hampton, Dec 24 '12 at 02:37

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 24 '12 at 02:42

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rewrite  ^(.*)$  /$host/$1;

Add the above mentioned rewrite rule. This works as following.

xyz.foo.com/index.html will map to /var/www/xyz.foo.com/index.html

The caveat is if the domain/subdomain directory doesn't exist nginx will throw an error.

answered Dec 24 '12 at 02:42

Sameer

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Thanks, it works! However xyz.foo.com doesn't default to xyz.foo.com/index.html, any solution for this? – Matt Norad Dec 24 '12 at 03:14
You can add the index directive http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpIndexModule#index – Sameer Dec 24 '12 at 15:44
Already did that as per my original post. It works well before I add the rewrite rule. Now it return 404 error page. – Matt Norad Dec 25 '12 at 05:57

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