Hello!

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 02:38:34PM +0100, Valery Kholodkov wrote:

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> > Alternatively, this may be handled by something like
> >
> > set $mogilefs_failover 1;
> > proxy_pass $mogilefs_path;
> >
> > with appropriate lookup of $mogilefs_failover in code before
> > returning value for $mogilefs_path.
>
> This is impossible, because I do not evaluate $mogilefs_path variable dynamically. nginx discards all modules' context when it does an internal redirect. Instead, I simply assign a value to variable and the value survives during internal redirect.

You may preserve old context by (surprise!) assigning it to a
variable. But it seems overkill for me, too. :)

Maxim Dounin