How to apply the same rules to several locations with Nginx?

Question

In a project I have very large nginx configuration with a lot of redundant lines.

The current state is like the following

location ~ /loc1/ {
    common rules;
}
location ~ /some/other/location/ {
    common rules;
}
location ~ /yet/anotherone {
    common rules;
}

etc .....

What I'd like to have is seperated way where there is a generic rule template and a list of locations.

In other related questions people have used regex to match several locations like so

location ~ (/loc1/|/some/other/location/|/yet/anotherone) {
    common rules;
}

In my case this would result in a huge line which would be very ugly to maintain.

Is there another cleaner way to do this?

Thank you very much.

probably not. is there a way to accomplish my goal using only exact matches? — PhilippN, Mar 26 '14 at 10:26
You should learn the difference between prefix and regexp locations. See http://nginx.org/r/location — Alexey Ten, Mar 26 '14 at 10:29
You're probably right but as far as I understand your comment doesn't adress the question I was asking at all. — PhilippN, Mar 26 '14 at 10:33

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 26 '14 at 10:25

First option is to put common rules; into file and include that file.

Another one is depend on what's exactly in that rules. In many cases you could move them to upper level like:

common rules;

location /a {
}

location /b/whatever {
}

and they will be inherited.

How to apply the same rules to several locations with Nginx?

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