Nginx same config for multiple paths

Question

I'd like to configure several paths within a site (such as /foo/ and /bar/) in the same way. To avoid copy-pasting, I figured I should use a single location block, but the only way I found for doing that is to use a regex, such as:

location ~ ^/(foo|bar)/ {
    ...
}

Is this the best way or is there a better alternative?

Mohammad AbuShady · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-02 08:38:32Z

5

This would work, but I believe it works slower, because it involves a regex engine, another alternative you could create the config you want in a separate file and include them in each location so that it would be written once and could be edited all together, like this

location /foo {
    include foo.conf;
}
location /bar {
    include foo.conf;
}

Inside foo.conf you could write any config that's in a location scope
heres a random sample snippet:

root /foo/bar;
try_files $uri /index.html;

answered Dec 2, 2013 at 8:38

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aditsu quit because SE is EVIL Over a year ago

Interesting idea, but that means splitting the config into 2 or more separate files. I guess it could be worth doing for a very busy site, if it provides a measurable performance improvement.

blamb Over a year ago

also im not sure it will allow two roots, might need alias for the 2nd.

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