Execution order of HttpLimitReq, proxy_pass and rewrites

[Francis Daly]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 09:51:16AM -0400, j0nes2k wrote:

Hi there,

> 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.

There shouldn't be any randomness involved.

There's a Fine Manual at http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#location

> 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.

As Igor showed, use multiple location blocks.

> I have tried something like
> 
> location /cgi-bin/ {
>    if ($request_filename ~ test\.pl) {

Note that there's also a special warning about if() inside location{}
at http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil -- anything other than "return" or
"rewrite ... last" is likely to cause confusion.

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

If your scripts don't use PATH_INFO, then something like

location = /script/one {
 limit_req ...;
 proxy_pass ...;
}

and if they do, then something like

location ^~ /script/two {} or location ^~ /script/two/ {}

with the same contents.

Good luck with it,

	f
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Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org