Question

Currently, I need to put

location ~ \.php$
{
    fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}

in each and every site that I need to run PHP files.

Is there a way to just put it in a “master”, so that all sites won’t have duplicate copies of the same directive?

Answer 1

yes like so:

include /etc/nginx/master.conf; 

for more details see http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#include

In other words where you had:

server {
  servername a;
  location ~ \.php$ { fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;}

  #rest of server a config
}

server {
  servername b;
  location ~ \.php$ { fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;}

  #rest of server b config
}

you’d now have:

server {
  servername a;
  include /etc/nginx/php-master.conf;

  #rest of server a config
}

server{
  servername b;
  include /etc/nginx/php-master.conf;

  #rest of server b config
}

and a seperate file /etc/ningx/php-master.conf with as content

location ~ \.php$ { 
  fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}

It doesn’t actually shorten the code in the serverblock much (as the included bit is just 1 line). But it still yields the advantage that you can now change your php settings in 1 place (say you move your fastcgi handler to a different port or ip)