Vhosts

[dtredwell]

Im looking to run nginx infront of apache to serve static content. I did some research on this with lighttpd a while back, if i remember right, the only problem is virtual hosts.

I can see two ways of getting this to work with cpanel;
either modify the vhost creation function, to mirror them into nginx's config
or to have a cron or something that enumerates all of the ( or the latest ) vhosts added by cpanel, and updates the nginx config accordingly.

now, in nginx the vhost exsample is like so;

http {
    server {
        listen          80;
        server_name     www.domain1.com;
        access_log      logs/domain1.access.log main;

        location / {
            index index.html;
            root  /var/www/domain1.com/htdocs;
        }
    }

    server {
        listen          80;
        server_name     www.domain2.com;
        access_log      logs/domain2.access.log main;

        location / {
            index index.html;
            root  /var/www/domain2.com/htdocs;
        }
    }
}

and an exsample of runing a proxy:

server {
        listen       80;
        server_name  some-server.com www.server-name.com;

        access_log  logs/host.access.log  main;

        # Main location
        location / {
            proxy_pass         http://127.0.0.1:8080/;
            proxy_redirect     off;

            proxy_set_header   Host             $host;
            proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;
            proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For  $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

            client_max_body_size       10m;
            client_body_buffer_size    128k;

            proxy_connect_timeout      90;
            proxy_send_timeout         90;
            proxy_read_timeout         90;

            proxy_buffer_size          4k;
            proxy_buffers              4 32k;
            proxy_busy_buffers_size    64k;
            proxy_temp_file_write_size 64k;
        }

        # Static files location
        location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|js)$ {
            root   /spool/www/members_ng;
        }

    }

It definately looks do-able, what do you guys think?
And what would be the best way to go about setting this one up?
Edit: probably posted in the wrong forum, haha