RFC: "global" location functionality

[Michael Shadle]

Or a way to make "superlocations" where they are implemented no matter  
what. Things like regexes for expires headers and php processing right  
now can collide with other things.

On May 13, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Daniel Hahler <genml at thequod.de> wrote:

> Any news about this feature request?
>
> I've just implemented some basic "check if .htaccess" is present and  
> use it, but
> all other locations do not get matched anymore.
>
>        location ~ ^/(.*)/(.*) {
>                if (-f $document_root/$1/.htpasswd) {
>                        error_page 599 = @auth;
>                        return 599;
>                }
>        }
>        location @auth {
>                auth_basic "Password-protected";
>                auth_basic_user_file $document_root/$1/.htpasswd;
>        }
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Michael Shadle <mike503 at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> Igor,
>> right now any time you have to protect a location, you have to put in
>> a second location block for php. You've said yourself this isn't a
>> highly suggested method.
>>
>> I've also run into issues where my expires headers can sometimes
>> conflict with things...
>>
>> would there be some way to implement some sort of global location
>> block method? perhaps it gets applied -after- the normal location
>> logic, and has a new marker?
>>
>> that way we could safely apply things like expires headers or a php
>> block -after- any sort of locations are defined. below the php block
>> should be unnecessary as it should inherit from the parent but it
>> doesn't. i've got some more complex setups too that get hard to
>> support due to having regexps and "stop processing" instructions in
>> place, but without them the site doesn't work properly, etc...
>>
>> server {
>>        listen 80;
>>        server_name foo.com;
>>        index index.php index.html;
>>        root /home/foo/docroot.com;
>>        include /etc/nginx/defaults.conf;
>>       location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html)$ {
>>           expires max;
>>       }
>>        location ^~ /blog/wp-admin {
>>                auth_basic "wordpress";
>>                auth_basic_user_file /path/to/.htpasswd;
>>                location ~ \.php$ {
>>                        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:11000;
>>                }
>>        }
>>       location ~ \.php$ {
>>                fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:11000;
>>        }
>> }
>>
>> Maybe instead have something like this, which would apply this
>> location block -after- all others are done...
>>
>>       location :~ \.php$ {
>>                fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:11000;
>>        }
>>
>> I picked ":" randomly. Not sure what the best thing is. ^~* are  
>> taken,
>> # is comments, $ is variables, @ is named location, + - & % : ?  are
>> the only chars left I can think, unless you somehow figured out how  
>> to
>> make it use a keyword like
>>
>> location :~ \.php$ global {
>>
>> but I don't know how that will work...
>>
>> Just an idea. Would simplify configuration a lot. I wind up hitting
>> the expires stuff a lot when it should be matching another location
>> instead, but because it's a .js file, it doesn't, so I have to wind  
>> up
>> nesting the expires stuff inside of the location block...
>>
>> This would help solve some of my issues with locations. That's
>> probably the most complicated thing in nginx.
>>
>>
>
>
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