Nginx variable for subdomain?

Question

I need a Guru\'s advice.

On Nginx\'s conf file, I would like to get the subdomain as a variable in order to redirect accesses as follow.

• ACCES

Answer 1

You can use a regular expression in the server_name to extract the part you need as a named capture. For example:

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  ~^(?<name>.+)\.example\.com$;
    return       301 http://example.com/$name$request_uri;
}

See this document for more.