Hello

I wish to have a configuration which allows for subdomains to be accessable without actual real sub folders created.

Example

jack.localhost, this would be the direct url, but nginx would parse it as localhost/?query=jack
steven.localhost -> localhost/?query=steven.

I have tried loads of rewrite rules, via server_name, and location, but none seem to work.
Im sure I must be missing something here.

Thanks in advance for any reply.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/28/2013 01:53PM by NginxNewComer.

Hello

I believe I have managed to partially solve this(within my own knowledge of things)

Firstly, Within your hosts file(independant of nginx) you must setup some subdomains, For windows it will originally look something like this

Before
127.0.0.1 localhost
After
127.0.0.1 localhost test.localhost example.localhost

Now in your nginx.conf file, Setup your server block like this.

server {
listen 80;
server_name ~(?<subdomain>.*).localhost;

You will now be able to access either localhost,test.localhost, or example.localhost, if you need the subdomain name in the url, you can access it via $subdomain.