I just love nginx, just adopted it today, and wanted to show my appreciation by sharing something I really like but haven't seen in any of the configuration examples: collapsing multiple-line config blocks into one line. For example here is my config for one of my sites. Look how nice and short it is :-)

[code]
upstream mongrel-hub { server 127.0.0.1:11000; server 127.0.0.1:11001; server 127.0.0.1:11002; }
server {
listen 80;
server_name xxx;
root /var/www/deployed-hub/current/public;
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html; location = /50x.html { root /var/www/nginx-default; }
if (-f $document_root/system/maintenance.html) { rewrite ^(.*)$ /system/maintenance.html last; break; }
location / {
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header -Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_redirect false;
if (-f $request_filename) { rewrite (.*) $1 break; }
if (-f $request_filename/index.html) { rewrite (.*) $1/index.html break; }
if (-f $request_filename.html) { rewrite (.*) $1.html break; }
if (!-f $request_filename) {
proxy_pass http://mongrel-hub;
break;
}
}
}
[/code]

I've compressed blocks that I'll never need to think about again (and stole from other rails sites anyway) and keep things nice and clear. Thanks!

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