Wildcard in location directive

[Francis Daly]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 07:04:42AM -0500, piotr.pawlowski wrote:

Hi there,

>         location ~ /documents/(.*)static=false$ {
>                 proxy_pass          http://upstream;
>         }
> 
>         location /documents {
>                 try_files $uri /test.html;
>         }
>         location = /test.html {
>                 expires 30s;
>         }
> 
> My testing URL is
> domain.com/documents/23/582ad23330d63a078c967bc3/-1476160403/DUH/POI/2016-12-13/params?variable=my&var=0&many=other-variables&static=false

"location" matches from the / after the domain name, to just before the
first # or ?

For this request, that is from /documents to /params

So of these, the second is the location that nginx should use.

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