nginx config file line continuation?

I've got an nginx config stanza that looks like:

server {
    listen *:80;
    server_name domain1.com domain2.com domain3.com domain4.com .... domainN.com;
    rewrite ^(.*) http://my_canonical_domain.com permanent;
}

with lots of different domains. Is there some way to break this up over multiple lines? I don't see anything in the nginx config docs which address this.


There is no need to. This works perfectly:

server_name domain1
    domain2
    domain3
    ...
    domainN;

Also you could use multiple server_name directives.


I'm not allowed to post a comment; otherwise I would have just added a comment to @Alexey Ten's answer in response to @roothan's comment. Regular expressions also work using this method (at least with nginx/1.16.1):

server_name thisdomain.com
    ~^(www\.)thatdomain.com
    ~^(www\.)theotherdomain.com;

I had some trouble being careless with copy/paste; just make sure you don't have any semicolons except after the very last name in the directive.