How to set a option within a location block

[Igor Sysoev]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 11:12:42AM +0100, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 10:06:16AM +0100, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have the URL http://www.xyz.com/dav/xxx and I need to be able to
> > > set http_timeout only when /dav/ is present in the URL. The problem
> > > is that the configuration is third party supplied and they already
> > > have:
> > >
> > > location /
> > > {
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > > So is it possible to have a location within a location for something
> > > like:
> > >
> > > location /
> > > {
> > >     location ^~ /dav/ {
> > >         keepalive_timeout 0;
> > >     }
> > > }
> > 
> > It's possible, but why can not you add
> > 
> > location /dav/ {
> > }
> > 
> > before or after
> > 
> > location / {
> > }
> > 
> > ?
> 
> Would need to duplicate all the other options within the /dav/ block as once it matches it does not process the other location block.

You may move common directives outside "location /":

common all directives

location / {
}

location /dav/ {
}


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