If server_name is something like “*.mydomain.com”, $server_name is exactly “*.mydomain.com”. If $server_name is passed on to fastcgi_param as SERVER_NAME, in the program, for example, php $_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’] will be exactly “*.mydomain.com”. However, _SERVER[“HTTP_HOST”] shows the value most of us would expect, i.e. the host name in the address bar. In Nginx, I have set up a… Continue reading SERVER_NAME vs HTTP_HOST