location ~* .(a|b|c)$ {} caused an error

[Ian Hobson]

Hi Sophie,

On 04/12/2017 16:49, Sophie Loewenthal wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I put this location block for case insensitive matching into the vhost produced an error.
> 
> nginx: [emerg] location "/" is outside location ".(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|css|js)$" in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/example.conf:13
> 
> My vhost has this:
> 
> server {
> …
>          location ~* .(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|css|js)$ {
>          expires 65d;
You need to close the first location here, before opening the second one.
> 
>          location  / {
>          allow  all;
>          limit_req   zone=app burst=5;
>          limit_rate 64k;
>          }
> …
> }
> 
> Did I misread the http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#location doxs?

Quite possibly - matching is rather complex.

I have been caught by the order of matching which is NOT the order of 
declaration. I need to check it every time I create a configuration.

Regards

Ian