location configuration?

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:36 AM, coderman <coderman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm reading through the nginx architecture document at
>> http://www.aosabook.org/en/nginx.html.
>>...
>> What is the location configuration, and why is it significant?
>
> e.g.: (assuming some web root set)
> ...
>     # location configuration for directly serving files from directory
>     location /dist {
>        proxy_max_temp_file_size 1m;
>        autoindex off;
>     }
>     # default handler location configuration for passing to upstream proxy
>     location ^~ / {
>         proxy_pass http://upstreamproxy;
>     }
> ...
Thanks. For some reason, I was thinking along the lines of IP
addresses and geolocation.