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user7328234
user7328234

Reputation: 413

difference between url in browser and value of server_name in nginx configuration

What's the difference between url in browser and value of server_name? And if a well-known hostname is specified in server_name,what would happen? In nginx configuration file:

server {
    listen      80;
    server_name example.org www.example.org; // if google.com is specified, what happens?
    ...
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1031

Answers (1)

Tarun Lalwani
Tarun Lalwani

Reputation: 146490

This is a virtual host which means, on same nginx/IP you can host multiple websites.

So adding a server_name helps nginx to separate traffic from one website to other. So if you have two blocks

server {
    listen      80;
    server_name example.org www.example.org;
}

server {
    listen      80;
    server_name example1.org www.example2.org;
}

Now example.org, www.example.org would be handled by first block and request to example1.org, www.example2.org will be handled by second block. There are other options like using mask *.example.com or using patterns ~^ww[\d]\.example\.com.

You can get more details on below link

https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/server_names.html

Upvotes: 1

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