Nginx subdomain configuration - nginx

Question

I have nginx acting as a reverse proxy to apache. I now need to add a new subdomain
that will serve files from another directory, but at the same time I want all location and proxy_pass directives that I have for the default host to apply to the subdomain also.
I know that if I copy the rules from the default host to the new subdomain it will work, but is there a way for the subdomain to inherit the rules?
Below is a sample configuration
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.somesite.com;
access_log logs/access.log;
error_log logs/error.log error;
location /mvc {
proxy_pass http://localhost:8080/mvc;
}
location /assets {
alias /var/www/html/assets;
expires max;
}
... a lot more locations
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name subdomain.somesite.com;
location / {
root /var/www/some_dir;
index index.html index.htm;
}
}
Thanks

Answer 1

You could move the common parts to another configuration file and include from both server contexts. This should work:
server {
listen 80;
server_name server1.example;
...
include /etc/nginx/include.d/your-common-stuff.conf;
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name another-one.example;
...
include /etc/nginx/include.d/your-common-stuff.conf;
}
Edit: Here's an example that's actually copied from my running server. I configure my basic server settings in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled (normal stuff for nginx on Ubuntu/Debian). For example, my main server bunkus.org's configuration file is /etc/nginx/sites-enabled and it looks like this:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [2a01:4f8:120:3105::101:1]:80 default_server;
include /etc/nginx/include.d/all-common;
include /etc/nginx/include.d/bunkus.org-common;
include /etc/nginx/include.d/bunkus.org-80;
}
server {
listen 443 default_server;
listen [2a01:4f8:120:3105::101:1]:443 default_server;
include /etc/nginx/include.d/all-common;
include /etc/nginx/include.d/ssl-common;
include /etc/nginx/include.d/bunkus.org-common;
include /etc/nginx/include.d/bunkus.org-443;
}
As an example here's the /etc/nginx/include.d/all-common file that's included from both server contexts:
index index.html index.htm index.php .dirindex.php;
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
location = /favicon.ico {
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
location ~ /(README|ChangeLog)$ {
types { }
default_type text/plain;
}