Problem with inheriting fastcgi params

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 12:36:36PM -0700, Michael Shadle wrote:

> I have my normal fastcgi params in my main nginx.conf file, under server {}
> 
> i.e.:
> 
> fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
> fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
> fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
> fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
> fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
> fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
> fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $request_uri;
> fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_URI $document_uri;
> fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $document_root;
> fastcgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol;
> fastcgi_param GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1;
> fastcgi_param SERVER_SOFTWARE nginx/$nginx_version;
> fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr;
> fastcgi_param REMOTE_PORT $remote_port;
> fastcgi_param SERVER_ADDR $server_addr;
> fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT $server_port;
> fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $http_host;
> fastcgi_ignore_client_abort on;
> fastcgi_buffers 32 8k;
> fastcgi_index index.php;
> 
> 
> The problem is, whenever I want to add a variable (maybe override too,
> I forget) it seems to clear all the other ones out:
> 
>                location ~ \.php$ {
>                         fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:11003;
>                         fastcgi_param HTTPS on;
>                 }
> 
> Now, only fastcgi_param HTTPS is set. no more SCRIPT_FILENAME so it's broken.

It's expected and documented behaviour.  All array-type settings 
behave like this: they are inherited from upper levels only if 
none defined at this particular level.

Maxim Dounin

> I would assume it would be able to inherit everything globally and
> only add to the fastcgi_params on demand.
> 
> This is using nginx 0.7.55 or thereabouts but it's been an issue I've
> noticed in the past too.
> 
> Can nginx support this?
>