# Question regarding Nginx Configuration **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [September 30, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-regarding-nginx-configuration/212363 "2011-09-30T20:37:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dubstep)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-regarding-nginx-configuration/212363/1 "2011-09-30T20:37:22Z")
I have Nginx up and running but I think that the conf file could be improved upon. I have a single server hosting 2 domains (doma and domb). doma is the default virtual host and supports a number of applications all of which use Perl scripts. domb has a separate domain name (obviously!) and supports one application that has a Wordpress/PHP frontend plus a secure Perl application All doma static web pages are held in sub-directories under a root of …/htdocs The domb ‘static’ Wordpress pages (including all PHP pages) are in …/htdocs/domb & sub-directories All Perl scripts for both doma and domb are in …/cgi-bin sub-directories including …/cgi-bin/domb for the secure domb apps. As I understand it I have to have 3 server blocks:- Block 1 - default port 80 Block 2 - domb port 80 Block 3 - domb port 443 Unfortunately it seems that I have to replicate the location …htdocs and cgi-bin\*.pl$ blocks3 times (once for each server block) and the /\*.php$ block twice (for domb 80 and domb 443). This, I think, is because location blocks can only exist within server blocks. Is it possible for location blocks to exist within the main http block at a higher level than the server block (I’ve tried it and it didn’t work for me but that might have been because I had got some other configuration statements wrong)? TIA Doug Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Question regarding Nginx Configuration](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,216128,216128#msg-216128)** > > I have Nginx up and running but I think that the conf file could be improved upon. I have a single server hosting 2 domains (doma and domb). doma is the default virtual host and supports a number of applications all of which use Perl scripts. domb... ---
**Author:** ![dougconran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@dougconran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dougconran)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 3:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-regarding-nginx-configuration/212363/2 "2011-10-01T03:50:14Z")
> Is it possible for location blocks to exist within the main http block at > a higher level than the server block? No, but if you have a lots of repeating configuration/locations in the server blocks you can move those to a seperate file and then use include ( [GitHub - nginxinc/nginx-wiki: ARCHIVED -- Source for the now archived NGINX Wiki section of https://www.nginx.com · GitHub](http://wiki.nginx.org/CoreModule#include) ) instead. rr ---
**Author:** ![dougconran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@dougconran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dougconran)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 2:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-regarding-nginx-configuration/212363/3 "2011-10-01T14:07:39Z")
Yes, I thought of that and it would certainly reduce the amount of duplication. However I do think that there are times when location directives apply to the whole server (the real server, that is, not the virtual host) and it would be nice to be able to use them at the higher level. Maybe that is one for the wishlist? Doug Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: Question regarding Nginx Configuration](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,216128,216154#msg-216154)** > > I have Nginx up and running but I think that the conf file could be improved upon. I have a single server hosting 2 domains (doma and domb). doma is the default virtual host and supports a number of applications all of which use Perl scripts. domb... ---
**Author:** ![dougconran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@dougconran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dougconran)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-regarding-nginx-configuration/212363/4 "2011-10-03T15:13:09Z")
## Igor S. Wrote: > Igor S. I guess that is certainly enough reason not to include them in Nginx - and thank you for making a very good alternative available, I certainly couldn’t do any better! My question, originally, was about whether I had correctly understood how to construct the conf file; or whether it could be done more efficiently and I had not understood how to do that. However, my config works and it was a lot easier than Apache - maybe I should just count my blessings. Doug Posted at Nginx Forum: [http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,216128,216210#msg-216210](http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,216128,216210#msg-216210) ---
**Author:** ![dougconran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@dougconran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dougconran)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-regarding-nginx-configuration/212363/5 "2011-10-02T15:15:56Z")
On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 08:07:03AM -0400, dougconran wrote: > Yes, I thought of that and it would certainly reduce the amount of > duplication. However I do think that there are times when location > directives apply to the whole server (the real server, that is, not the > virtual host) and it would be nice to be able to use them at the higher > level. > > Maybe that is one for the wishlist? Locations, Directories, and other blocks in the global server configuration is one of features I never liked in Apache, so this is reason why they were not implemented in nginx. – Igor S.