ur correct i tried it and it doesn't do what i thought it did.
I'm trying to the same thing as before. assign an environment variable.
reading the Map directive documentation. It doesn't do that either.

2009/9/15 Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru>

> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:55:59PM +0500, Ziyad Saeed wrote:
>
> > Where does the env directive go.
> > I'm using it under the Server scope
>
> This global (not even 'http' directive):
>
> env ...
>
> http {
> ...
>
> However, this is not what you need. nginx does not use enviroment
> variables. Where do you want to use the variable ?
>
>
>
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> Igor Sysoev
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