Actually I'll post one of my server directives so we can see if there is any inheritance problems like
you suggested, i have about 50 server directives the same as this:
( I know it seems quite bloated but I didn't read any way I could set php and perl/cgi scripts outside of
server directivesfor all the vhosts)


server {
listen 80;#bind to ipv4
listen [::]:80; #bind to ipv6
server_name x.x.x;
root /xxx/xxx/xxx;
access_log /usr/nginx_logs/xxx_xxx_log main;
error_log /usr/nginx_logs/xxx_xxx_error;
index index.php index.pl index.html;
error_page 404 /xxx/xxx.pl;
error_page 500 502 503 504 /xxx/xxx.pl;
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/cgi2.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location ~ \.pl$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/cgi.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}

---- i do see params being set in location as you said would not work, So are you saying i would have to add all those GEO_IP directives to all 50 server directives :( perhaps maybe can suggest a way to move these perl and php directives outside server directives into http context to work with GEOIP? or I have to hope for a freebsd commit to stop removing that file I suppose.