nginx.conf - @ (at symbol)

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:27:19PM +0200, Jeff Vogt wrote:

> Sorry, not a ruby / mongrel question, but this forum looks active.
> 
> Can anyone tell me the functionality of the @ symbol in the following
> statement?
> 
>   location @joomla {
>     rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
>   }
> 
> (from http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxJoomla)

Here is what Google Translate says based on original 
documentation:

Prefix "@" specifies the named location. This location is not used 
during normal processing of requests, and is intended only to be 
redirected to his requests.

(from 
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://sysoev.ru/nginx/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html)

It doesn't looks terribly wrong for me (though probably needs some 
grammar/wording fixes).  Feel free to update wiki 
(http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpCoreModule#location).

Maxim Dounin