Why no top-level set?

[Marcin Kasperski]

For some reason, the set directive is available only within server
block. Wouldn't it be possible to handle set's also on the top level?

Motivation? Well, some use case:

  set logdir /my/log/dir;
  error_log $log_dir/error.log

  # ...
  http {
  # ...
     server {
         access_log $log_dir/access.log combined;

Similarly one could set crucial ports, hostnames etc once and reuse them
thorough the file.

Another possibility - one could write whole server config using
variables for directories, ports etc, then include it into files which
would just set those variables differently (and - say - reuse the same
config on different machines).




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