[Ovidiu]

some more progress:

made some more progress with the help of some guys on IRC it seems these lines work:

listen 80 default;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:82;

as 127.0.0.1 is enough, no need to use $host there as this is a reverse proxy, nginx and apache2 are on the same box.

and another suggestion to solve the www vs non-www problem was something like this:

set $site_dir $host; if ($host ~ ^www\.(.*)) { set $site_dir $1; } root /var/www/$site_dir/web;

but I can't put it togetehr alone. also would it not need an else statement to keep

root /var/www/$host/web;

in case the non-www version was called?