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Asked: 2017-09-30 09:42:12 +0800 CST

Can I use /etc/nginx/conf.d to add locations?

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I have some nginx config snippets, which add locations, i.e. to send requests to a certain path to a fastcgi server. For a clean deployment with ansible, I would like to use the /etc/nginx/conf.d folder to add them there.

The problem is, location /something belongs into a server block and the default server is already defined in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default. And when I want to deploy more different locations, they should not need an own vhost for each include.

Possibly even a site in sites-enabled would be useful, but it should still be composable. Different snippets can be included in the same config without knowing if other snippets are installed or not.

Is there a clean way to include location blocks from config snippets without modifying the default config?

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  1. The include statement in nginx works also for partial config, not just full servers. So you could create a directory e.g. /etc/nginx/default-site-locations/ and put there all your location_1.conf ... location_n.conf files.

    Then, in your default configuration, include all conf files from that directory with include /etc/nginx/default-site-locations/*.conf

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