Is there a way to specify, for example, that the root should be relative to the directory where the config file is living? Something like
root $conf_path/www
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You can actually do that using the -p option.
If you have your config file in the same directory as your app you can run:
/your/folder $ sudo nginx -c `pwd`/nginx.conf -p "`pwd`"
from your app folder.
Your nginx.conf file changes from:
http {
include mime.types;
root /your/folder;
server {
listen 8000;
}
}
to
http {
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
root .;
server {
listen 8000;
}
}
just make sure that you check relative links that pointed to /etc/nginx/
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In general, I don't believe this is possible. But, you might be able to hack something together based on this article.
Quoting relevant parts:
2ed version is here: How to reference OS Environment Variables in nginx.conf
Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,215269,215278#msg-215278
and further
You can read system environment variables with ngx_lua enabled in your nginx build: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpLuaModule
env PATH;
http {
...
server {
location /path {
set_by_lua $path 'return os.getenv("PATH")';
...
}
}
BTW, to use the set_by_lua directive, you also need to enable the ngx_devel_kit module here: https://github.com/simpl/ngx_devel_kit (it'll be easier if you use the ngx_openresty bundle).
