# Mass virtual hosting

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mass-virtual-hosting/121511>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [November 28, 2007, 3:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mass-virtual-hosting/121511 "2007-11-28T15:50:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![BartSSSS\_omiej\_Syry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BartSSSS\_omiej\_Syry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BartSSSS_omiej_Syry)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2007, 3:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mass-virtual-hosting/121511/1 "2007-11-28T15:50:32Z")

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Is it posiible to use something like Apache’s mod\_vhost\_alias  
([mod\_vhost\_alias - Apache HTTP Server](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_vhost_alias.html)) in nginx?  
I want to define separately root, location and access\_log (and possibly  
auth\_basic\_user\_file) directives per domain. Variable $server\_name works  
only in root. Of course I don’t want to use file per domain.  
Interpolation like %N.M will be fine too.  
Example:

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server {  
[…]  
server\_name nginx _;  
access\_log /var/log/nginx/access_$server\_name.log;  
[…]  
root /srv/www/$server\_name;  
[…]  
}

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Bart³omiej Syryjczyk  
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**Author:** ![BartSSSS\_omiej\_Syry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BartSSSS\_omiej\_Syry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BartSSSS_omiej_Syry)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2007, 3:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mass-virtual-hosting/121511/2 "2007-11-28T15:54:39Z")

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On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Bart³omiej Syryjczyk wrote:

> access\_log /var/log/nginx/access\_$server\_name.log;

access\_log dosn’t support variables

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**Author:** ![BartSSSS\_omiej\_Syry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BartSSSS\_omiej\_Syry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BartSSSS_omiej_Syry)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mass-virtual-hosting/121511/3 "2007-12-30T00:29:08Z")

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Roxis pisze:

> access\_log dosn’t support variables  
> I know, but maybe someone thinking about mass virtual hosting via nginx  
> at another way?

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**Author:** ![BartSSSS\_omiej\_Syry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BartSSSS\_omiej\_Syry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BartSSSS_omiej_Syry)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2007, 7:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mass-virtual-hosting/121511/4 "2007-12-31T07:31:51Z")

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Bartłomiej Syryjczyk wrote:

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> Roxis pisze:
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> > access\_log dosn’t support variables  
> > I know, but maybe someone thinking about mass virtual hosting via nginx  
> > at another way?

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