title: Nginx subdomain configuration
body: <p>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.</p>
  
  <p>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</p>
  
  <pre><code>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;
          }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>