diff --git a/images/nginx/fastcgi.conf b/images/nginx/fastcgi.conf
index 9cbc41e66..9c98245cb 100644
--- a/images/nginx/fastcgi.conf
+++ b/images/nginx/fastcgi.conf
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ set_by_lua_block $remote_addr_clean {
   end
 }
 
+# Allow downstreams to add fastcgi_params, usually any values included 
+# this way may be overwritten by the default values below.
+include /etc/nginx/fastcgi/*.conf;
+
 fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
 fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING       $query_string;
 fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD     $request_method;