Point Nginx subdomains at specific directory

Question

I configured an nginx server block. And I'm still stack on one last thing. I want the www.domain.com to point at a specific directory (root /var/www/directory1) and all the other subdomains (eg sub1.domain.com, etc, execpt the www) to point at an other directory (root /var/www/directory2). How do you do that ? Rewrite or proxy pass?

Thank you

Answer 1

You can use a default server block to match all of your domains with the exception of www.example.com . For example:

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    root /var/www/directory2;
    ...
}
server {
    listen 80;
    server_name www.example.com;
    root /var/www/directory1;
    ...
}

See this document for details.