Nginx wildcard proxy, pass subdomain to the server (upstream proxy) - nginx

Question

I would like to be able to pass subdomain.domain.com to .domain.com apache server, with subdomain info too.
I would like to make a nginx cache for domain, acting like wildcard, but passing subdomain to the destination (there is apache witch wildcard too). Up to now, I pass the info via proxy_set_header Host $host; but I would like to have request with subdomain at the apache server.
upstream domain.com {
server 172.1.1.1:80 weight=50 fail_timeout=30s;
}
server {
server_name *.domain.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://domain.com;
#proxy_pass $request;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
}
location ~* ^.+. (jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|js|swf)$ {
proxy_pass http://topmanagergame.com;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_cache my-cache;
proxy_cache_valid 200 302 30m;
proxy_cache_valid 404 1m;
}
access_log /var/log/nginx/domain.com.log main;
error_log off;
}
Do you think I can use proxy_pass with upstream ?
Nginx (*wildcard_domain.com) --(cache)--> Apache (*wildcard_domain.com)
Nginx (anything.domain.com) --(cache)--> Apache (anything.domain.com)

Answer 1

upstream somestring {
server domain2.com:80 weight=50 fail_timeout=30s;
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name *.domain.com;
server_name ~^(?<subdomain>.+)\.domain\.com$;
location / {
proxy_pass http://somestring;
proxy_set_header Host $subdomain.domain2.com;
}
}

Answer 2

So I was trying to find the answer to this problem and kept finding this post. But I think dmytrivv answer is out of date. In our scenario, we have both wildcard domains (e.g. *.mydomain.com) and custom domains (e.g. fullycustomdomain.com). But you can solve both by using proxy_set_header Host $host; and having default at the end of your listen.
upstream qaweb {
# Servers in the web farm
server ip-notreal-name.ec2.internal:80;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl default;
ssl_certificate certs/mydomain.com.crt;
ssl_certificate_key certs/mydomain.com.key;
# Support for wildcard domains
server_name admin.mydomain.com *.mydomain.com "";
location / {
# Turn off access logging so we don't fill the hardrive
access_log off;
proxy_pass http://qaweb;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
# So that the correct IP shows up in the log once libapache2-mod-rpaf is installed
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
}
}
Note, we are also using it as a TLS termination proxy.
You can also find more examples on how to use proxy_pass here https://www.liaohuqiu.net/posts/nginx-proxy-pass/