set variables within config

[Michael Shadle]

I do this, for fastcgi ports currently.

Igor says it is supported, but I am running into an issue and I can't
reproduce it yet but it is happening (today I actually have to fix it)

You can do this as long as the parameter you are using supports
variables. I am not sure if all of them do or not. The error_log might
not for example; not sure. Might be a nice thing to add to the wiki,
under the context it is accepted, whether or not it parses variables
too. (and perhaps parses captures?)

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Jon Garvin <jgarvin.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> I haven't seen any way to do this in the docs, so this might be more of
> a feature request, but if someone knows of a way to accomplish this that
> I missed, let me know.
>
> I'd really like to be able to set a variable in the config and then use
> it to set other settings, with the ultimate goal of DRYing up the config
> file.  For instance, right now I've got many different 'server' blocks,
> each with a few lines that look like...
>
> root /var/www/domain1/current/public;
> access_log  /var/www/domain1/shared/log/nginx.access.log;
> error_log  /var/www/domain1/shared/log/nginx.error.log;
>
> Lots of repetition there.  Would be great if instead I could say...
>
> $basepath = /var/www/domain1
> root $basepath/current/public;
> access_log  $basepath/shared/log/nginx.access.log;
> error_log  $basepath/shared/log/nginx.error.log;
>
> And then even better to be able th extract out those last three lines
> into a paths.conf file (or something), so that each server block could
> just say...
>
> $basepath = /var/www/domain#
> include paths.conf
>
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