By introducing the artificial requirement for a subdirectory, indeed, there is no way around using /var/tmp. Just keep in mind it works perfectly (and faster) without that, and we still can create the empty directories by start scripts.

Till Nginx 0.8.34 is released you can fork the overlay. Every git fetch; git merge will preserve your adaption. And yet still you can tweak your configuration files. Nothing is written in stone. ^_~

Sorry for being a pain on the subject but:

“The /var/tmp directory is made available for programs that require temporary files or directories that are preserved between system reboots.”

Nginx requires those directories to start, not the files inside them.

Have a look at the diferences on the FHS, /var/tmp is the right place.

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#TMPTEMPORARYFILES

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARTMPTEMPORARYFILESPRESERVEDBETWEE

Regards

But given the demand, I will include a check in future Ebuilds so you can set /var/tmp as temporaries’ directory. (Which will be, Juan, not FHS compliant. But there is no harm, either.)

Having the temporary paths set to /tmp will make the nginx startup script to fail if the system is rebooted since that directory could be wiped via /etc/conf.d/bootmisc or, as you mentioned, being on tmpfs.

You should either create those /tmp/nginx/* directories from within the startup script or keep using /var/tmp/nginx/* which is FHS compliant (“/var/tmp : Temporary files preserved between system reboots”) for this particular case.

client-body-temp-path & proxy-temp-path are new options in nginx and without it default values nginx old configs are broken

Indeed, on most servers I’ve seen /tmp being on (transient) tmpfs and /var/tmp being a larger, but persistent temporaries’ folder on HDD which is preserved between system reboots. – What conforms to FHS 2.3.

Finally, Nginx does not create subfolders on its own, creates temporary files in a safe manner and does not assume they exist between two program invocations.

Therefore /tmp (or anything beneath it) is the only correct place.

--http-client-body-temp-path=/var/tmp/${PN}/client \
--http-proxy-temp-path=/var/tmp/${PN}/proxy \
--http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/${PN}/fastcgi \