How to catch request to http://<public_ip> and https://<public_ip> in nginx?

Question

I have a few websites each in its own server{} block in nginx, with their domains defined in server_name directives. One of the websites also has an https server{} block. They're all on the same IP.

How do I create server blocks that would catch the requests to http://1.2.3.4 and https://1.2.3.4, but not any of the domains? I've tried creating variations of "default" servers, but if nginx sees a default https block, it just uses that block for all https connections, including the website that has its own https server block.

nginx 1.4.2 on Ubuntu 12.04.

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

nginx vhost perference is described in: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/request_processing.html#mixed_name_ip_based_servers

default_server settings work just fine as long as you have only one SSL website for a IP:

server {
    listen x.x.x.x:443;
}

nginx currently doesn't support SNI properly that would allow you to specify multiple SSL certificates for single IP address: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/configuring_https_servers.html#compatibility