server {
    listen      80;
    server_name app localhost .dev;

    # the location of our projects directory
    set $basepath "/Users/nicknisi/code";

    set $domain $host;
    if ($domain ~ "^(.*)\.dev$") {
        set $domain $1;
    }
    set $rootpath "${domain}";
    if (-d $basepath/$domain/public) {
        set $rootpath "${domain}/public";
    }
    if (-f $basepath/$domain/index.html) {
        set $rootpath $domain;
    }

    root $basepath/$rootpath;

    location / {
        # enable index view of the directory
        autoindex on;
        # a 405 is thrown when posting to a static file. this corrects it
        error_page 405 = $uri;
    }

    # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
    error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
    location = /50x.html {
        root html;
    }
}