Posting a bit late to this thread, but thought I'd contribute. Having
found no better way myself, the way I "import" environment variables
into my nginx configurations is as follows.

At top config level:

env MYVAR;

At http level:

perl_set $myvar 'sub { return $ENV{"MYVAR"}; }';

Then, for example, at server level:

root $myvar;

Works a treat. Obviously there must be an overhead cost with this
approach, but either it's small, or I'm small, because I haven't noticed
it. (And even then, if I found it significant, I'd probably get to work
on a proper patch, since environment variables are rather central to my
general service configuration strategy.)

I'd love to know if anyone does it differently and/or better. If a
helper is how it must be done, I'd actually prefer to use Lua -- but
"perl_set" is documented for use at the http config level, whereas
"lua_set" (for whatever reason) is not.

$0.02,
Eric

On 02/27/2013 11:22 PM, amodpandey wrote:
> Thank you.
>
> I am looking for an simpler ( direct ) approach. For now I have put a sed
> script in my bounce nginx which does that.
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,236654,236706#msg-236706
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