Can try_files be allowed outside of location {} ?

[mike]

well if this is something you would rather not support, then perhaps i
should go by your rules.

i try to keep my configurations simple, and it seemed like for most of
my sites i did not need the location / {} and it also conflicted
sometimes with other rules (probably due to incorrect modifiers and
user error)

i can try the patch if you'd like though, or i can start to make base
level location / {} in all my configs (honestly 90% of my sites dont
need any)

2009/3/19 Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:43:43PM -0700, mike wrote:
>
>> 2009/3/19 Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>:
>> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:17:45PM -0700, mike wrote:
>> >
>> >> I get a warning when placing it outside of a location block. I don't
>> >> think it -needs- to be inside of one. Would be nice to team up with
>> >> the patch you made for the next release... :)
>> >
>> > I'm not sure that it should be done.
>> > Could you show use case ?
>>
>> for a site basically dedicated to a single app... no need for location / {}
>>
>> server {
>>         listen 80;
>>         server_name michaelshadle.com;
>>         index index.php index.html;
>>         root /home/mike/web/michaelshadle.com;
>>         include /etc/nginx/defaults.conf;
>>         include /etc/nginx/expires.conf;
>>         try_files $uri $uri/ /wordpress/index.php?q=$uri;
>>         location ~ \.php$ {
>>                 fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:11000;
>>         }
>> }
>>
>> my current workaround:
>>
>> server {
>>         listen 80;
>>         server_name michaelshadle.com;
>>         index index.php index.html;
>>         root /home/mike/web/michaelshadle.com;
>>         include /etc/nginx/defaults.conf;
>>         include /etc/nginx/expires.conf;
>>
>>         location / {
>>                 try_files $uri $uri/ /wordpress/index.php?q=$uri;
>>
>>         location ~ \.php$ {
>>                 fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:11000;
>>         }
>>         }
>> }
>>
>> A nit bit-picky but I don't see the need for the restriction, unless
>> the code is very difficult for it.
>
> Actually, I have decided from the very start that each server {} should
> have "location / {}" and it was surprise for me when people started to
> use configurations as in the 1st example. There are even some bugfixes
> related to this since I did not expect such usage.
>
> I will think if try_files in server{} is possible. You may try the attached
> patch, it just enable try_files in server context (warning, I did not test it).
>
>
> --
> Igor Sysoev
> http://sysoev.ru/en/
>