I have a conf file and I want to include it in nginx.conf only if it exists....how can that be done ?

Can we have an if statement before include ?

Hi, you may use the include directive with some glob() pattern tricks

For instance, replace this

include /path/to/something/nonexisting.conf

with

include /path/to/something/nonexisting[.]conf

the config parser won't complain if such file does not exist.