Rewrite issue

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 04:36:12PM +0200, P??l-Kristian Hamre wrote:

> Igor Sysoev skrev:
> > Also this location
> > 
> >     location / {
> >         rewrite ^/Blocked$      /code/Scripts/Blocked.php     last;
> >     }
> > 
> > is better to divide to
> > 
> >     location / {
> >     }
> > 
> >     location = /Blocked {
> >         rewrite ^     /code/Scripts/Blocked.php      last;
> >     }
> 
> What is the difference between these two blocks in practice? I can
> imagine less regular expressions to handle, and this will cause and
> increase in the performance on sites with a large amount of traffic. Is
> this true, or is just best practices for nginx?

Yes, this is perfomance issue and therefore this is best practice.


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