Nginx-0.7.4

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Changes with nginx 0.7.4 30 Jun
2008

*) Feature: variables support in the "access_log" directive.

*) Feature: the "open_log_file_cache" directive.

*) Feature: the -g switch.

*) Feature: the "Expect" request header line support.

*) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions might be truncated.
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The -g switch? Any more details on this? There’s nothing in the wiki
yet:
http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxCommandLine

Igor S. wrote:

*) Bugfix: large SSI inclusions might be truncated.

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On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 01:59:38PM +0100, Phillip B Oldham wrote:

The -g switch? Any more details on this? There’s nothing in the wiki yet:
http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxCommandLine

The -g switch allow to set global directive in command line, e.g.:

nginx -g “pid /var/run/nginx.pid; worker_processes sysctl -n hw.ncpu;”

Note the semicolon after last directive.

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On 6/30/08, Igor S. [email protected] wrote:

Changes with nginx 0.7.4 30 Jun 2008

*) Feature: the “open_log_file_cache” directive.

I was hoping to look at what the open_log_file_cache was and update
the wiki, but the auto translation is a bit weak… :stuck_out_tongue:

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsysoev.ru%2Fnginx%2Fdocs%2Fhttp%2Fngx_http_log_module.html&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=ru&tl=en

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On Monday 30 June 2008, mike wrote:

cs%2Fhttp%2Fngx_http_log_module.html&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=ru&tl=en
open_file_cache, open_file_cache_errors, open_file_cache_min_uses and
open_file_cache_valid are missing in wiki too.

i updated wiki NginxHttpLogModule, please correct my english

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Igor S. ha scritto:

By the way, some time ago, I wrote a patch with the implementation of a
new switch -p.

It allows to set the prefix path in command line.

Regards Manlio P.

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On Jun 30, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Igor S. wrote:

Changes with nginx 0.7.4 30
Jun 2008

*) Feature: variables support in the “access_log” directive.

excellent!

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Igor S. wrote:

Changes with nginx 0.7.4 30 Jun 2008

*) Feature: variables support in the "access_log" directive.

This is excellent!

However, I have quite a few rails sites and I would like to use a
variable in the proxy_pass definition also…

I would like to use $site to simplify this as follows (so that I can
chuck the whole lot in the include section):

    upstream mongrel_cluster_production.admin.mysite.com {
        server 127.0.0.1:8031;
        server 127.0.0.1:8032;
    }

    server {
            listen          1.2.3.4;
            server_name     admin.mysite.com *.admin.mysite.com ;
            set             $site  "admin.mysite.com";

…
location / {
include /etc/nginx/std_rails_root.conf;
if (!-f $request_filename) {
proxy_pass
http://mongrel_cluster_production.$site;
break;
}
}
}

Would you please consider extending this feature to the proxy_pass
definition also (static variables set at the server level are plenty for
my requirements)

Thanks for listening…

Ed W

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On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 18:51 +0100, Ed W wrote:

However, I have quite a few rails sites and I would like to use a
variable in the proxy_pass definition also…

I would like to use $site to simplify this as follows (so that I can
chuck the whole lot in the include section):

You could try something like this (untested):

map $host $backend {
hostnames;
.admin.mysite.com mongrel_cluster_production.admin.mysite.com;
}

…
location / {
include /etc/nginx/std_rails_root.conf;
if (!-f $request_filename) {

                              proxy_pass http://$backend;

                            break;
                    }
            }
    }

Regards,
Cliff