On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:24:12PM -0700, Michael Shadle wrote:

> i'd like to do something like:
>
> server {
> listen 80;
> server_name *.user.foo.com;

server_name ~^(.+)\.user\.foo\.com$;

> root /home/user/web/$1;
> }
>
> this would be basically required too:
>
> server {
> listen 80;
> server_name *.user.foo.com;
> root /home/user/web/$1;
> if ($1 == 'something) {
> require include.conf;
> }
> }

This i ssome kind of configuration macro, but it's currently not easy
to implement this.

> it would be nice if i could assign "user" as a variable too. however,
> that would be a double bonus.
>
> i think alias allows captures, but i would need to define
> DOCUMENT_ROOT then as well.

The "root" supports captures too.


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