On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 05:23:13PM -0700, Michael Shadle wrote:

> isn't this the same then?
>
> server {
> listen 80;
> server_name _;
> }
>
> server {
> listen 80 default;
> }
>
> if you only had one of those in your config, the fallbacks would occur
> to those blocks, if they did not match any others though, right?
>
> obviously mixing them would prefer the listen 80 default; i assume?

No, these are different things. The default server for *:80 is only

server {
listen 80 default;
}

or the first server listing on *:80 if you have no "default" keyword.

The "server_name _" is just invalid and so nonexistent domain name
that will never interfere with any real name.

> 2009/4/29 Maxim Dounin <mdounin@mdounin.ru>:
> > Hello!
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 03:57:28PM -0700, Michael Shadle wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin@mdounin.ru> wrote:
> >>
> >> > It MUST per RFC2616.