Dynamically set current domain in nginx with perl module

Question

I know how to set variables and use subroutines with the nginx builtin perl module INSIDE a "server" directive but, what I need to do is to set/rewrite the current domain before.

Let's say, we have a domain like

 admin.foobar.website.com

I want that a request to

 foobar.othersite.com

to point to the first address ( obviously website.com and othersite.com are hosted on the same webserver running nginx :) ).

For reasons I can't explain here, I can not use multiple server_name directive expressions, I have to do this before the server {} block, with perl or anyway possible.

Answer 1

Please check out the solution that we have developed for this at http://www.logicwreck.com/index.php/2012/09/11/dynamic-vhosts-for-nginx-with-database-storage-of-domain-and-alias-info/

Answer 2

server {
    server_name admin.foobar.website.com;
    location / {
        proxy_pass foobar.othersite.com;
    }
}