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I'm trying to package 2 applications that use nginx as a proxy and deliver each a config file into /etc/nginx/conf.d/.

Doing this in one file (combined.conf) works great :

    upstream backend1 {
      http://localhost:8989;
    }

    upstream backend2 {
      http://localhost:8990;
    }

    server {
      location /backend1/ {
        proxy_pass  http://backend1;
      }
      location /backend2/ {
        proxy_pass  http://backend2;
      }

However, when splitting into 2 files, one of the redirects fails systematically:

• backend1.conf:

  upstream backend1 {
    http://localhost:8989;
  }
  
  server {
    location /backend1/ {
      proxy_pass  http://backend1;
    }
  

• backend2.conf:

  upstream backend2 {
    http://localhost:8990;
  }
  
  server {
    location /backend2/ {
      proxy_pass  http://backend2;
    }
  

So my question is : can an http node have 2 different server childs ?

Nginx documentation says nothing about it.

Other people seem to have succeeded with this kind of architecture though :(

Nginx version is 1.1.19-1ubuntu0.1.

Thanks for any advice !