Another auth/location question - probably very simple to fix :)

[Igor Sysoev]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 12:07:22AM +0400, Igor Sysoev wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:29:54PM +0400, Igor Sysoev wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 12:05:17PM -0700, mike wrote:
> > 
> > > On 8/16/08, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Have you tried
> > > >
> > > > -                 location ~ /wordpress/admin.* {
> > > > +                 location ^~ /wordpress/admin {
> > > >
> > > > ?
> > > 
> > > yeah - it did not work. PHP (the nested fastcgi location inside of the
> > > admin location) was not processing anymore.
> > 
> > Yes, this is a bug. I'm looking how to resolve it.
> 
> Looking at code, I've found that simple should work:
> 
>           location /wordpress/admin {
> 
> If nginx has found maximum static match, it look inclusive static and
> regex locations. The matched inclusive regex location stops searching.

In other words, inclusive regex locations have higher priority.

> It seems that inclusive locations should be documented:  forgot how they
> works :).


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