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12 author="Igor Sysoev" |
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13 editor="Brian Mercer"> |
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23 is used for a given request. |
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25 They may be defined using exact names, wildcard names, or regular expressions: |
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56 the specified variants, e.g. both wildcard name and regular expression match, |
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57 the first matching variant will be chosen, in the following order of precedence: |
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114 To use a regular expression, the server name must start with the tilde |
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125 Also note that domain name dots should be escaped with a backslash. |
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130 server_name "~^(?<name>\w\d<b>{</b>1,3<b>}</b>+)\.example\.net$"; |
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143 server_name ~^(www\.)?(<b>?<domain></b>.+)$; |
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175 pcre_compile() failed: unrecognized character after (?< in ... |
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184 server_name ~^(www\.)?(.+)$; |
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186 location / { |
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187 root /sites/<b>$2</b>; |
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193 since the digital references can easily be overwritten. |
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194 </para> |
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207 <para> |
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208 If it is required to process requests without the <header>Host</header> |
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209 header field in a <link doc="ngx_http_core_module.xml" id="server"/> |
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225 then nginx uses the empty name as the server name. |
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226 <note> |
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227 nginx versions up to 0.8.48 used the machine’s hostname as the server name |
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238 If someone makes a request using an IP address instead of a server name, |
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239 the <header>Host</header> request header field will contain the IP address |
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242 <programlisting> |
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243 server { |
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247 "" |
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267 There is nothing special about this name, it is just one of a myriad |
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268 of invalid domain names which never intersect with any real name. |
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276 It never functioned as a catch-all or wildcard server name. |
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277 Instead, it supplied the functionality that is now provided |
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279 <link doc="ngx_http_core_module.xml" id="server_name_in_redirect"/> | |
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281 The special name “<literal>*</literal>” is now deprecated |
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283 <link doc="ngx_http_core_module.xml" id="server_name_in_redirect"/> | |
284 directive should be used. | |
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271 | 287 <link doc="ngx_http_core_module.xml" id="server_name"/> |
288 directive. | |
289 This is a property of the | |
290 <link doc="ngx_http_core_module.xml" id="listen"/> | |
291 directive | |
292 and not of the | |
293 <link doc="ngx_http_core_module.xml" id="server_name"/> | |
294 directive. | |
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298 while the other will be the default for port *:80: |
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300 <programlisting> |
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301 server { |
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302 listen 80; |
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309 listen 80 default_server; |
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314 </programlisting> |
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322 name="Internationalized names"> |
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324 Internationalized domain names |
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325 (<link url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name">IDNs</link>) |
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327 in the <link doc="ngx_http_core_module.xml" id="server_name"/> directive: |
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329 server { |
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330 listen 80; |
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331 server_name xn--e1afmkfd.xn--80akhbyknj4f; # пример.испытание |
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359 <para> |
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366 after processing the <literal>Host</literal> header field |
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461 For these reasons, it is better to use exact names where possible. |
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271 | 488 the <link doc="ngx_http_core_module.xml" id="server_names_hash_max_size"/> |
489 and <link doc="ngx_http_core_module.xml" id="server_names_hash_bucket_size"/> | |
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490 directives at the <i>http</i> level may become necessary. |
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492 <link doc="ngx_http_core_module.xml" id="server_names_hash_bucket_size"/> | |
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495 If the default value is 32 and server name is defined as |
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512 If a large number of server names are defined, |
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524 Only if this does not help, |
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530 If a server is the only server for a listen port, then nginx will not test |
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531 server names at all (and will not build the hash tables for the listen port). |
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533 If a server name is a regular expression with captures, |
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534 then nginx has to execute the expression to get the captures. |
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535 </para> |
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537 </section> |
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540 <section id="compatibility" |
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541 name="Compatibility"> |
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543 <para> |
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547 The special server name “<literal>$hostname</literal>” has been supported |
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548 since 0.9.4. |
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549 </listitem> |
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551 <listitem> |
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552 A default server name value is an empty name “” since 0.8.48. |
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556 Named regular expression server name captures have been supported since 0.8.25. |
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560 Regular expression server name captures have been supported since 0.7.40. |
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564 An empty server name “” has been supported since 0.7.12. |
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568 A wildcard server name or regular expression has been supported for use |
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569 as the first server name since 0.6.25. |
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573 Regular expression server names have been supported since 0.6.7. |
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577 Wildcard form <literal>example.*</literal> has been supported since 0.6.0. |
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581 The special form <literal>.example.org</literal> has been supported since 0.3.18. |
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585 Wildcard form <literal>*.example.org</literal> has been supported since 0.1.13. |
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588 </list> |
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589 </para> |
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591 </section> |
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593 </article> |