nginx server configuration: subdomain to folder

Question

I migrated from Apache 2 to nginx and I\'ve got problems to handly my subdomain control. What I want: When x.domain.tld is requested, internally rewrite to doma

Answer 1

I spent hours beating my head against the wall and this is what works for me

server {
    listen       80;

    server_name ~^(?P.+)\.example\.com$; #<-- Note P before sub, it was critical for my nginx
    root /var/www/$sub; #<-- most important line cause it defines $document_root for SCRIPT_FILENAME

    location / {
            index index.php index.html; #<-- try_files didn't work as well
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
            fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000; #<-- probably you have another option here e.g. fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
            fastcgi_index  index.php;
            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/$fastcgi_script_name;
            include        fastcgi_params;
    }
}