Best Practice for “fastcgi_pass” Directive Location in NGiNX

Question

Is best to put the fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000 directive in the fastcgi_params file for NGiNX, or to explicitly state it in the location for \.php$?

Or does it not really matter?

Answer 1

You want to put it directly in the location block, because the fastcgi_params file is intended to be shared by multiple blocks which can pass to a different FastCGI server. The fastcgi_params also gets rid of the "noise" of all the paramater definitions which are not important most of the time, but the fastcgi_pass directive is always important when dealing with configurations. Lastly, the name fastcgi_params implies that it only contains fastcgi_param directives -- using it for other directives will confuse others (and probably you in a couple months) trying to understand the configuration.