nginx 0.1.35 *) Feature: the "working_directory" directive. *) Feature: the "port_in_redirect" directive. *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault was occurred if the backend response header was in several packets; bug appeared in 0.1.29. *) Bugfix: if more than 10 servers were configured or some server did not use the "listen" directive, then the segmentation fault was occurred on the start. *) Bugfix: the segmentation fault might occur if the response was bigger than the temporary file. *) Bugfix: nginx returned the 400 response on requests like "GET http://www.domain.com/uri HTTP/1.0"; bug appeared in 0.1.28.

--- a/src/os/unix/ngx_process_cycle.c
+++ b/src/os/unix/ngx_process_cycle.c
@@ -838,6 +838,15 @@ ngx_worker_process_init(ngx_cycle_t *cyc
 
 #endif
 
+    if (ccf->working_directory.len) {
+        if (chdir(ccf->working_directory.data) == -1) {
+            ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_ALERT, cycle->log, ngx_errno,
+                          "chdir(\"%s\") failed", ccf->working_directory.data);
+            /* fatal */
+            exit(2);
+        }
+    }
+
     sigemptyset(&set);
 
     if (sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &set, NULL) == -1) {