On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 12:38 -0700, mike wrote:
> i don't like having to do
>
> location \.php {
> stuff
> }
>
> location /foo {
> auth basic stuff
> ... and i have to do the php stuff again
> }

Couldn't you just do:

include /etc/nginx/php.conf;

location /foo {
auth basic stuff
include /etc/nginx/php.conf;
}

Regards,
Cliff