nginx server_name wildcard or catch-all

Question

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.d

Answer 1

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