Setting expires header to multiple locations

[Antonio P.P. Almeida]

> Currently I need to use tricks since I have multiple locations in my site
> config.
>
> e.g.
>
> =====================================
>
>
> location ~* /a {
>     location ~* ^/.*\.(?:css|js|jpg|jpeg|gif|png)$ {
>         expires 1y;
>     }
> }
>
> location ~* /b {
>     location ~* ^/.*\.(?:css|js|jpg|jpeg|gif|png)$ {
>         expires 1y;
>     }
> }
>
> location ~* /c {
>     location ~* ^/.*\.(?:css|js|jpg|jpeg|gif|png)$ {
>         expires 1y;
>     }
> }

Going against Igor, Maxim, Valentin and Ruslan in order to be more DRY you
could use a regex based location (which has its own quirks):

location ~* ^/(?:a|b|c)/.*\.(?:css|gif|js|jpe?g|png)$ {
    expires 1y;
}

--appa