HTTP request processing phases in Nginx

Nginx processes HTTP requests in multiple phases. In each of the phases there might be 0 or more handlers called. In the Nginx source code phases have specific constants associated with them. Here is a list of all phases: NGX_HTTP_SERVER_REWRITE_PHASE — the phase of request URI transformation on virtual server level;NGX_HTTP_FIND_CONFIG_PHASE — the phase of configuration location lookup;