Question

I have some nginx config in a repo, and the application root is sometimes different on different machines and setups:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name admin.triface.local;

    root /Users/xxxxxx/Sites/triface-admin/public;
    index triface.html;
}

I want to set a variable somewhere (like an bash environment variable or equivalent) that lets me avoid hardcoding the server root. It seems like this should be straightforward, but I can’t find anything on it. Any clues?

Answer 1

So the answer is, there isn’t any! Intentionally! And once I read the reasoning, it actually made sense. Though it is a bummer I can’t do local nginx installs to people’s $HOME dir, but I can live with that.

See this stackoverflow answer:

How do I pass ImageMagick environment variables to nginx mongrels?