How to serve first Nginx regex server_name servers

Question

I have a Nginx config which look like this :

server { server_name sub2.sub1.example.com; listen 80; return 301 https://$host$request_uri; } server { listen 443 ssl; server_name sub2.sub1.example.com; ... } server { listen 80; server_name ~^sub2\.sub1\.example\.com/toto/[abc]/.*$; ... } 

The Nginx documention says that Nginx evaluates server_names in the following order (http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/server_names.html) :

1. exact name

2. longest wildcard name starting with an asterisk, e.g. *.example.org”

3. longest wildcard name ending with an asterisk, e.g. “mail.*”

4. first matching regular expression (in order of appearance in a configuration file)

So, my server with the regex server_name will be evaluate last (in fact, will never be evaluated because the sub2.sub1.example.com match first)

Is there a way to prioritize the server which have a regex as server_name ?
Is the default_server directive do this ? It's not realy what the documentation seems to say.
Maybe I should use location instead of different server directives to resolve this problem ?

Jules

Answer 1

Ok I found a solution.

It's better to use some location directives for this problem.

So, now my config is :

server { listen 80 default_server; server_name sub2.sub1.example.com; ##### Non HTTPS conf ##### location ~* ^/toto/[abc]/ { # This replace the "server_name ~^sub2\.sub1\.example\.com/toto/[abc]/.*$;" config block ... } ##### HTTPS conf ##### location / { return 301 https://$host$request_uri; } } server { listen 443 ssl; server_name sub2.sub1.example.com; ... }