nginx.conf File too Large

Alexandr Gomoliako zzz at zzz.org.ua
Wed Jul 6 23:41:49 MSD 2011


On 7/6/11, Rami Essaid <rami.essaid at gmail.com> wrote:
> We are trying to use nginx as a reverse proxy for a large number of sites
> and putting up a lot of rules to direct and traffic for each host. Is there
> a number of hosts ({server}) that would be too many for a single nginx
> instance to support? At what point does the configuration file get too large
> and start bogging down the nginx server? Currently each host takes up about
> 150 lines, and we are looking to put in 25+ hosts onto each server. I wanted
> to know if this realistic?

It doesn't sound like an nginx problem. Nginx usually suggests what to
change if it hits the limit. Can you show us the exact error message?



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