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How to redirect all traffic to only ONE host containter?

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Excellent job guys! I'm very impressed with your work!

Where in the code I could modify the internal router that routes the SNI "website1.com" TO container "website1" created with VIRTUAL_HOST=website1.com... So it can redirect all traffic to the SAME container, say: "localhost"???

EX:
exemple.com => host container:"localhost"
mycustomdomain.com => host container:"localhost"
anothercustomdomain.com =>host container:"localhost"
ALL 3 HOST CONTAINER ARE THE SAME!

We're developing an app like "wix.com, squarespace.com" to generate (maybe millions of) websites on the fly with HTTPS support. This docker project with "docker-letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion" is the closest I've found to meet our criteria to solve our TLS termination problem:(How to host thousands of custom domains with SSL).

The only dilemma is this project was designed for websites with different code
EX:
website1.com => custom code for website1
website2.com => custom code for website2
Each websites are separated with their own code; which is logical.

The problem is our app is already polymorphic(will pull the custom data according to the hostname)
EX:
website1.com => uses the SAME code to build website1 with DIFFERENT data according to the hostname.
website2.com => uses the SAME code to build website2 with DIFFERENT data according to the hostname.

Long story short: We cannot have 1,000,000 containers: website1,website2,...website100001; it makes no sense. It's all the same code! We just need "on the fly TLS termination". I hope to decrypt/generate all SSL on the fly and bump all the traffic TO ONE CONTAINER for our code to do the rest of the magic.

I think I'm getting close. I've found in /nginx.tmpl

line 117: I modified

{{ $host := trim $host }}
{{ $is_regexp := hasPrefix "~" $host }}
{{ $upstream_name := when $is_regexp (sha1 $host) $host }}

for
{{ $upstream_name := "thisismysupertest.com" }}

line 276: To be used here

server {
    [...]
    location / {
        [...]
        include uwsgi_params;
        uwsgi_pass {{ trim $proto }}://{{ trim $upstream_name }};
    }
}

But I get a:
2018/01/19 03:15:32 [emerg] 1#1: invalid host in upstream "http://thisismysupertest.com" in /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf:80
or
2018/01/19 03:15:32 [emerg] 1#1: invalid host in upstream "http://172.18.0.3" in /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf:80
172.18.0.3 is the ip of thisismysupertest.com container

Any idea?

Thank you for your time :)

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Start with nginx.tmpl, especially the upstream-name logic around line 117 and the uwsgi_pass usage around line 276. Inspect the generated /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf and verify that multiple hostnames can route to one container while nginx starts without an invalid upstream error.

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Tech stack
docker, nginx
Domain
backend, networking
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
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