variables in "include"

[Marcus Clyne]

Hi Kaspars,

Kaspars wrote:
> Marcus, thank you very much for explaining how things are meant to 
> work in nginx.
You're welcome.
>
>> If the config files were analysed at runtime (like .htaccess files on 
>> Apache), that would slow things down.  Also, if the configuration 
>> file is wrong, what do you do?  Better to control it all at start time.
> I agree, there are lot of benefits of not having any runtime file 
> access action going on. It would be interesting to do some testing on 
> how this affects the performance.
Litespeed, which is an asynchronous event-driven (like Nginx), very fast 
webserver that is largely Apache-compatible allows Apache-style 
.htaccess files to be used on a per-directory basis, and caches them in 
memory.  Although this does have a performance hit, it's still very 
fast, and with the right design, it needn't necessarily have a huge 
impact on performance if implemented in Nginx.  It shouldn't be too hard 
to implement, but Igor may not want to include code that does it in the 
main source.
>
>> If you need specific configurations for each server, then you can't 
>> really get around having a separate server{} block for each one 
>> (though you might be able to group them).
>> One possible method: [...]
> I have set it up almost exactly like you described and it works very 
> well.
I'm glad it works well.

Marcus.