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Smudge
Asked: 2011-12-29 06:47:10 +0800 CST

NGINX 'global' location

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Is it possible to create a 'global' location for an NGINX server? I'd like every site served by NGINX to have access to a /global/ folder; along the lines of

http {
    [...stuff...]

    #Global path
    location /global/ {
        root /my/global/location/;
    }

    server {
        listen          127.0.0.1:80;
        server_name     example.com;

        [...standard config...]
    }

    server {
        listen          127.0.0.1:80;
        server_name     example.org;

        [...standard config...]
    }

    server {
        listen          127.0.0.1:80;
        server_name     example.net;

        [...standard config...]
    }
}

And be able to access files in the global location from http://example.com/global/ http://example.org/global/ etc.

I can do this if I add the global location block to every server block but that's annoying, I'd like to have it defined globally and be able to access it from within the sites.

I could use an include directive in each host, but it still requires specification in each host. The NGINX wiki says the 'location' block is only valid within the server context but I didn't know if there was a rewrite trick or something similar.

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3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It's not no and as far as I know there isn't any talk of changing that either.

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  2. What about just include it? e.g.

    include /etc/nginx/global-location.conf;

    I know you need to add it to each of the vhosts but it allows to do further changes easily and I think it is faster than having dynamic vhosts.

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  3. You can sort of do it the other way round, by using dynamic vhost directories.
    for example:

    server {
...
    server_name ~^(www\.)?(?<domain>.+)$;
...
    location /global/ {
        root /my/global/location/;
    }
...
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