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