i figured someone would link the wiki however if you look at the
language in there it is a bit confusing

"two of the above can be combined" ... I'm going to change the wording quick.


2009/10/26 Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalhaes@eu.ipp.pt>:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 21:40, Michael Shadle <mike503@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
>>
>> so that is shorthand for server_name domain.tld www.domain.tld; ?
>
> http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpCoreModule#server_name
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>