# Nginx supports idn domain?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-supports-idn-domain/182137>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [January 23, 2010, 6:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-supports-idn-domain/182137 "2010-01-23T06:56:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![max](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@max](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/max)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 6:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-supports-idn-domain/182137/1 "2010-01-23T06:56:54Z")

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Hello,

I remember that I got some problem to run idn domains on nginx. I can’t  
remember whether it’s the problem of nginx itself (ver 0.6) or the  
problem  
of wordpress supercache. So I moved all the idn domains to apache at  
that  
time.

But now I got a new dedicated server and I am running the latest ver of  
nginx. So I would like to ask can nginx handle idn domains? Thanks.

Max

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**Author:** ![max](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@max](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/max)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 3:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-supports-idn-domain/182137/2 "2010-01-23T15:08:26Z")

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Hello!

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:56:25PM +0800, Max wrote:

> I remember that I got some problem to run idn domains on nginx. I can’t  
> remember whether it’s the problem of nginx itself (ver 0.6) or the problem  
> of wordpress supercache. So I moved all the idn domains to apache at that  
> time.
> 
> But now I got a new dedicated server and I am running the latest ver of  
> nginx. So I would like to ask can nginx handle idn domains? Thanks.

There are no known issues with idn domains. After all, it’s just  
latin1 domains just visualized specially by browsers. Something  
like this should work flawlesly:

```
server_name xn--e1afmkfd.xn--80akhbyknj4f;

```

Maxim D.