Best way to handle nginx config/vhosts

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So I’m trying to find a role/create a role for my Ansible config to configure nginx.

Here’s how it currently (manually!) works:

I have numerous nginx conf files for each website that I host on this machine.

api.p123.domain.com

webapi.p123.domain.com

webapi.p124.domain.com

etc

API is the function, what it’s for etc, p123 is the ‘platform’ and .domain.com is well… the domain…

The configuration for api.p123.domain.com:

#main server block - api.p123.domain.com
server {

    listen 80;
    server_name api.p123.domain.com;

location / {

    #deny all access to root http://api.p123.domain.com/
    deny all;
 }

location ~* /endpoint1 {

    proxy_pass       http://api.p123.domain.com;

    include include/general/proxy_common.conf;

    access_log   /var/log/nginx/api.p123.domain.com/endpoint1.access.log main;
    error_log    /var/log/nginx/api.p123.domain.com/endpoint1.error.log info;

 }

location ~* /endpoint2 {

    proxy_pass       http://api.p123.domain.com;

    include include/general/proxy_common.conf;

    access_log   /var/log/nginx/api.p123.domain.com/endpoint2.access.log main;
    error_log    /var/log/nginx/api.p123.domain.com/endpoint2.error.log info;

 }
 access_log   /var/log/nginx/api.p123.domain.com.access.log main;
 error_log    /var/log/nginx/api.p123.domain.com.error.log info;

}

All the conf files are very similar. I’m basically asking for help/advice on how I can structure and achieve this using Ansible. Do I use templates or static files, I know I can set host_vars but these nginx conf files could in theory go to multiple servers and there could be 20-30 platforms… etc

If you have any questions just ask. Thanks in advance!

Michael