Root inside Location Block? Pitfalls says NO, Beginner’s Guide says YES

[chrisrob]

Practically the first two pages I read when starting with nginx were:

http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls

which says "putting Root inside Location Block is BAD" - don't do it.

and

http://nginx.org/en/docs/beginners_guide.html

which gives this as its example of a config file:

The resulting configuration of the server block should look like this:

server {
    location / {
        root /data/www;
    }
    location /images/ {
        root /data;
    }
}

So I'm wondering which is right?

Cheers,
chrisrob

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,242986,242986#msg-242986