.htaccess style support in existing nginx

[rahul286]

Thanks for suggestion André. :-)

Yes, we will take whitelisting approach only.

Rather than giving direct command  like "nginx -t && service nginx reload"
in sudoers list, we will create a small shell script, put it outside
web-writable path (so php/web-scripts cannot alter it)

www-data user will have sudo privilege on our script only

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,232176,232247#msg-232247