Nested Locations Better???

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Igor Sysoev Wrote:
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> If you use only locations without regexes, then
> you may not use nested
> locations. nginx uses some kind of binary tree to
> match locations, so
> 
>  location /set/subset/ { }
>  location /set/ { }
> 
> are slightly faster than nested locations. BTW you
> may write
> 
>  location /set/ { }
>  location /set/subset/ { }
> 
> or
> 
>  location /set/subset/ { }
>  location /set/ { }
> 
> - there is no difference for nginx: it finds the
> longest match using
> the tree. 

Understood. Thanks. I'll continue to order them as ...

location /set/subset/ { }
location /set/ { }

... just to maintain consistency with what I have done before.

> The nested locations are better if you
> had to use regex
> locations. Then I usually isolate regex location
> inside usual location:
> 
>  location /dir/ {
>      location ~ ^/dir/(.+)$ {
>          ...        
>      }
>  }

Got it. The example I was referring to had  ...

location ~ subset { }
location ~ set { }

... so I will nest them as per your indication in the original response
 
> > Also, how many layers deep can this go if so?
> 
> No limit, except memory, etc.

Good to know. I don't expect to go deep than one layer anyway.

Thanks for the clarification.

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,174517,174538#msg-174538