Hello!

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 10:26:07PM +0700, Edho Arief wrote:

> (doesn't seem to be specified in documentation)
>
> My test showed:
> - anything set in server { } block is inherited:
>
> server {
> set $something /usr/share/something;
> ...
> location / {
> location /nested/ {
> # $something is set to /usr/share/something
> root $something;
> }
> }
> }
>
> - anything set in location { } block is not inherited:
>
> server {
> ...
> location /~ {
> location ~ ^/~([^/]+)(|/.*)$ {
> set $userfile /home/$1/public_html/$2;
> alias $userfile;
> location ~ \.php$ {
> include fastcgi_params;
> # $userfile is empty here
> fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $userfile;
> fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
> }
> }
> }
>
>
>
> Is it correct?

Yes, this is expected behavrious. Rewrite module directives are
never inherited, and directives specified inside location are only
executed if this exact location matches.

See here for details:
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_rewrite_module.html

Maxim Dounin

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