How to setup mass dynamic virtual hosts in nginx?

Question

Been playing with nginx for about an hour trying to setup mass dynamic virtual hosts. If you ever done it in apache you know what I mean.

Goal is to have dynamic subdom

Answer 1

Perhaps doing this will get you where you want to be:

server {

    root /sites/$http_host;

    server_name $http_host;

    ...

}

I like this as I can literally create sites on the fly, just create new directory named after the domain and point the DNS to the server ip.