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Asked: 2026-05-30T12:53:08+00:00

I have an instance of nginx running which serves several websites. The first is

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I have an instance of nginx running which serves several websites. The first is a status message on the server’s IP address. The second is an admin console on admin.domain.com. These work great. Now I’d like all other domain requests to go to a single index.php – I have loads of domains and subdomains and it’s impractical to list them all in an nginx config.

So far I’ve tried setting server_name to * but that failed as an invalid wildcard. *.* works until I add the other server blocks, then I guess it conflicts with them.

Is there a way to run a catch-all server block in nginx after other sites have been defined?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Change listen option to this in your catch-all server block. (Add default_server) this will take all your non-defined connections (on the specified port).

    listen       80  default_server;

    if you want to push everything to index.php if the file or folder does not exist;

    try_files                       $uri /$uri /index.php;

    Per the docs, It can also be set explicitly which server should be default, with the **default_server** parameter in the listen directive

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