Nginx excluding directory from redirect rules -

i have following .conf in nginx

location / {      if ($uri !~ ^/front/? ){         include ez_params.d/ez_rewrite_params last;     }      include common_auth.conf.inc;      location ~ ^/(index|index_(rest|cluster|treemenu_tags))\.php(/|$) {     #bunch of rules here     } } 

what trying here here excluding /front/ folder ezpublish rewrite rules. however, not not work, gives me error while trying load file:

"nginx: [emerg] "include" directive not allowed here in /etc/nginx/conf.d/staging-preview.conf:51 nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed"

i found out using "if" pretty not done, see http://wiki.nginx.org/ifisevil , don't understand should instead.

just create individual location blocks , include/exclude whatever want. can repeat "includes" in each needed

for example:

location ~ ^/front/? {     # here include common_auth file     include common_auth.conf.inc; } location ~ ^/(index|index_(rest|cluster|treemenu_tags))\.php(/|$) {     # here include common_auth file     include common_auth.conf.inc;     .... } location / {     # here include common_auth file     # ez_rewrite_params     include ez_params.d/ez_rewrite_params;     include common_auth.conf.inc; } 

note don't use "last" including files