Question

I have directory containing FastCGI projects, to be more specific different versions of the same project. For example, there are ver1 and ver2 directories located at /some/dir/project/ and I want them to be ver1.project.example.com and ver2.project.example.com respectively.

How should I do it with nginx without creating different configs for each version and assuming that new versions may be added dynamically?

Answer 1

in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/project:

server {
  server_name ~^(?<version>\w+)\.project\.example\.com;
  root /some/dir/project/$version;
  include fastcgi_params;
}

adding a new version directory at /some/dir/project/version99 will automatically make it available at version99.project.example.com.