Advice on max_ranges for specific location block

[sephreph]

Hi,

Hopefully this question isn't too basic, I just want to check if I'm missing
something obvious.

I'm setting up a basic nginx installation with php-fpm behind it running on
127.0.0.1:9000 - that's working fine.  I'm using max_ranges set to 5
globally in the server block (example below), but I have a specific PHP
script (/free.php) that I want max_ranges set to 0 for.  I'm not sure how to
achieve this.

max_ranges needs to be in a http, server or location block, so would the
best solution be to copy the "location ~ \.php" block and call it "location
~* /free.php" and just add the "max_ranges 0" setting in there?  I was
hoping that location blocks cascade so I could overwrite that setting and
then the request would fall into the .php block but I don't think that's
actually the case?


A basic example of what I'm currently using is:
server {
        listen  80;
        server_name     localhost;
        max_ranges      5;

        location / {
                root    /var/www/example.com;
                index   index.php;
        }

        location ~ \.php {
                set             $script         $uri;
                set             $path_info      "";

                if ($uri ~ "^(.+\.php)(/.*)") {
                        set             $script         $1;
                        set             $path_info      $2;
                }

                client_body_temp_path   /tmp 1;
                client_max_body_size    2048m;
                fastcgi_pass            127.0.0.1:9000;
                fastcgi_read_timeout    300;
                fastcgi_index           index.php;
                fastcgi_param           SCRIPT_FILENAME        
/var/www/example.com$script;

                include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
        }
}

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,248175,248175#msg-248175