Thanks for your opinion, Igor. Would it also be safe to use `include`
statements for blocks that occur multiple times?

Jan-Philip

On 09/25/2012 10:37 AM, Igor Sysoev wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:14:07AM +0200, Jan-Philip Gehrcke wrote:
>> Thanks, Maxim! This was helpful.
>>
>> However, I'd like to discuss the concept a bit further. We're talking
>> about changing only one property for a single location while keeping the
>> rest of the configuration constant -- a pretty common task I guess --
>> shouldn't there be a more elegant solution?
>
> My exprience of administrating sites with a lot of locations says
> that it is much better to concentrate complete configuration inside
> location instead of spreading it across whole file.
>
> When you need to add new functionality in the spreaded configuration
> you have to check it whole to see possible conflicts. There are no
> such issues when you add new functionality in configuration with
> completely separated locations given only location prefixes and
> without regexes.
>
> The common objection is that you have to dupclicate many common
> parameters in all these locations. But when you need to change some
> common parameter in many locations, say upstream address, then
> find-and-replace in your favourite editor is your friend. It takes
> far less time to see if a place should be changed or not.
>
>

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