id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	uname	nginx_version
267	Introduce static variables	Johan Bergström		"A very common scenario is checking in config files in whatever VCS/DVCS you have available. Most people doing this also check in things like ip addresses or passwords just to have their deploy scripts push them to servers. This is non-optimal, since it changes more often than not. Alternatives to this is either to pre-process your config scripts (defining your own variable scheme) or use set from the rewrite module. As much as I'd like to use the latter, knowing that it is evaluated on every request, it's very hard to swallow.

With this said, **I'd like to see a 'static' variable introduced which would be evaluated when parsing the config**. The suggested scenario would be to include a `variables.conf` in whatever config scope needed, that replaces $variable with value set in `variable.conf`. Syntax for doing this is somewhat irrelevant, but `set foo bar;` is generally accepted within the rewrite module. Whatever improvements (or avoiding conflicts) to naming is appreciated.

Hopefully, more people than me would appreciate such a feature to nginx core."	enhancement	new	minor		nginx-core			config static		irrelevant	irrelevant