# Config file order **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [February 9, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/config-file-order/216633 "2012-02-09T18:49:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/config-file-order/216633/1 "2012-02-09T18:49:34Z")
I know the server order in the config file makes a difference. Does the order of the statements inside the location tags make a difference? Do I need to set the headers before doing a proxy\_pass or does it matter? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Bai\_Shen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Bai\_Shen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bai_Shen)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/config-file-order/216633/2 "2012-02-09T18:59:33Z")
Hello! On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 12:49:16PM -0500, Bai Shen wrote: > I know the server order in the config file makes a difference. Does the > order of the statements inside the location tags make a difference? > > Do I need to set the headers before doing a proxy\_pass or does it matter? In most cases order doesn’t matter. There are some special cases though, most notably regexp locations and rewrite module directives, where order matters. In such special cases order of processing is usually explicitly documented. As for proxy\_pass and proxy\_set\_header - order doesn’t matter. Maxim D. ---
**Author:** ![Bai\_Shen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Bai\_Shen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bai_Shen)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/config-file-order/216633/3 "2012-02-09T19:07:38Z")
That’s what I thought, but I wasn’t sure. I’m trying to get the remote IP to show up in my web server logs and wanted to make sure nginx was sending it.