Execution order of HttpLimitReq, proxy_pass and rewrites

[j0nes2k]

Hello Francis,

okay, I see. So nginx seems to (randomly?) choose one of the location
blocks - in my case it was the lower one using the proxy_pass directive.


However I have several scripts running under /cgi-bin that need
different limit_req settings - there are scripts that need to have a
strong limit and others do not need a limit at all. I have tried
something like

location /cgi-bin/ {
   if ($request_filename ~ test\.pl) {
       limit_req zone=one nodelay burst=3;
   }
   proxy_pass http://default_backend/cgi-bin/;
}

...but unfortunately limit_req is not allowed in this context. Is there
another option how I could get limit_req to work for me?

Thanks!

Best regards,
Jonas Kaufmann

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,186876,186880#msg-186880