multiple blocks or single reg exp

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 09:27:41AM -0400, token wrote:

> Hello,
> which would be the best way to handle this multiple location blocks or a
> single location block with a regular exp.
> 
> location /css/    {   root /var/www/static_includes/; expires 97d; }  
> location /images/ { root /var/www/static_includes/; expires 97d; }  
> location /js/     { root /var/www/static_includes/; expires 97d;}
>    
> ----------------
> 
> location ~ /(css|images|js)/  {
>   root /var/www/static_includes/;
>   expires 97d;
> }

Use multiple normal location blocks.

Regexp locations do introduce unneeded complexity and make 
configuration maintenance much harder.  Besides that, (a) it's 
easy to make regexp incorrectly (e.g. you missed "^") and (b) 
normal locations are faster (though you wouldn't likely notice).

Maxim Dounin