[nginx] Nginx subdomain configuration

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.

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

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;
        }
}

Thanks

Another type of solution would be to autogenerate the nginx conf files via Jinja2 templates from ansible. The advantage of this is easy deployment to a cloud environment, and easy to replicate on multiple dev machines