"alias" directive may not be used inside location given

[Denis F. Latypoff]

07.07.10, 16:32, "Fernando Perez" <lists at ruby-forum.com>:

> I don't understand the following error:
>  
>  the "alias" directive may not be used inside location given by regular
>  expression
>  
>  >From the docs it seems possible:
>  http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpCoreModule#alias
>  
>  I'm running 0.7.38
>  
>  Here is my conflictual declaration:
>  
>  location ~* ^/uploads/([\w\-\/]+\.(jpg|m4v|mp4|ogv|png)) {
-    alias  $rails_path/uploads/production/$1;
+    root  $rails_path/uploads/production;
+    try_files  /$1 =404;
>  }
>  
>  
>  I want to map the request /uploads/assets/myfile.png to
>  /uploads/production/assets/myfile.png on disk
>  
>  
>  Thanks
>  

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br, Denis F. Latypoff.