http://disqus.com/people/0f342f1ae437a00aa89c36f727f0e0c7/enMon, 09 Jun 2008 15:38:37 -0000http://opticality.disqus.com/nginx_reporting_for_duty_52/#comment-624071&gt;Specifically, if can’t be used within a regular expression based if test, even if you aren’t using variable substitution in the proxy_pass itself.<br><br>It seems that you just should not use if()s in nginx.conf for such kind of things, it is rather slow and not intended for request-uri case handling; it is supposed to be used in specific cases like user-agent checks etc.<br><br>use regexp locations instead.<br><br>to avoid copy-pasting, put some directives to the server{} level, or use the include directive.fixxxerMon, 09 Jun 2008 15:38:37 -0000