nginx config - dynamic virtual hosts

default.conf

server {
	index index.php;
	set $basepath "/var/www";

	set $domain $host;

	# check one name domain for simple application
	if ($domain ~ "^(.[^.]*)\.dev$") {
		set $domain $1;
		set $rootpath "${domain}";
		set $servername "${domain}.dev";
	}

	# check multi name domain to multi application
	if ($domain ~ "^(.*)\.(.[^.]*)\.dev$") {
		set $subdomain $1;
		set $domain $2;
		set $rootpath "${domain}/${subdomain}/www/";
		set $servername "${subdomain}.${domain}.dev";
	}

	server_name $servername;

	access_log "/var/log/nginx/server.${servername}.access.log";
	error_log "/var/log/nginx/server.dev.error.log";

	root $basepath/$rootpath;

	# check file exist and send request sting to index.php 
	location / {
		try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
	}

	# allow php only in root index.php
	#location ~ "^/index\.php$" {
	# allow execute all php files
	location ~ \.php$ {
		try_files $uri =404;
		fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
	
		fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
		fastcgi_index index.php;
		include fastcgi_params;
	}

	# configure phpmyadmin path
	location /phpmyadmin {
		root /usr/share/;
		index index.php;
		location ~ ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.php)$ {
			try_files $uri =404;
			root /usr/share/;
			fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
			fastcgi_index index.php;
			fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
			include fastcgi_params;
			fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
			fastcgi_buffer_size 128k;
			fastcgi_buffers 256 4k;
			fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k;
			fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k;
			fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
		}
		location ~* ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html|xml|txt))$ {
			root /usr/share/;
		}
	}

	location /phpMyAdmin {
		rewrite ^/* /phpmyadmin last;
	}

	# disallow access to apache configs
	location ~ /\.ht {
		deny all;
	}

	# disallow access to git configs path
	location ~ /\.git {
		deny all;
	}

	# disallow access to yii code path
	location ~ /(protected|themes/classic/views)/ {
		deny all;
	}
}

dnsmasq

# sudo apt-get install dnsmasq
# echo "address=/.dev/127.0.0.1" >> /etc/dnsmasq.conf

EXACTLY what I needed, love this. Thanks!

I keep getting sent to the default nginx vhost :-/ the domain is whatever.dev and the default is responding instead of this config.

Any tips?

Hi,

Kindly remove the .dev in line 8, 11, 15, 19, 25

Thank you.

Regards,
Ahmad Fazli Ismail,
http://www.cloud.org.my | http://www.k-ict.org.my | http://www.k-ict.org | http://www.afi-pcmaster.net

Thank you. I'll use that config in my vagrant environment.

In case you have other static vhosts in your nginx installation use

listen 80 default_server;

to catch unknown virtual hosts by this configuration.

Thank you. After two days of failed tests your solution saved me.

Arigatow! 😸 💯

additionally you should set

fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $servername;

this will set in php "$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']" variable to proper host name instead of plain "$servername"

Nice thing, sadly you need LUA for this to work.