location configuration?

[coderman]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm reading through the nginx architecture document at
> http://www.aosabook.org/en/nginx.html.
>...
> What is the location configuration, and why is it significant?

e.g.: (assuming some web root set)
...
    # location configuration for directly serving files from directory
    location /dist {
       proxy_max_temp_file_size 1m;
       autoindex off;
    }
    # default handler location configuration for passing to upstream proxy
    location ^~ / {
        proxy_pass http://upstreamproxy;
    }
...


best regards,