location regex issue

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 02:12:26PM +0300, Boyko Yordanov wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> Further issue: 
> 
> I tried to use around 2000 pages in the same location block like this:
> 
> location ~* (^/browse|^/page2|^/page3|... etc ^/page2000) {
> 
> And of-course I'm getting:
> 
> nginx: [emerg] too long parameter 
> 
> Can I catch all these pages with a single location directive or I should separate them in different locations? Also, what is the allowed size for location parameter?

You should not use regex location if you can avoid them.

location = /browse {
    ...
}

location = /page2 {
    ...
}

etc.


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Igor Sysoev