locations with regex

[Andrew Deason]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:58:40 -0200
Alejandro Vartabedian <lists at webservice.com.uy> wrote:

[snip]
> works ok, but something like:
> 
>         location ^~ /(app1|app2)/ {
[snip]
> doesn't...
> i've read http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpCoreModule#location but

>From that very page:

>> The second is to use the prefix ^~. This prefix is used with a
>> conventional string and tells nginx to not check regular expressions
>> if the path provided is a match.

^~ does not signify a regex. It is a simple string, and just says not
to search the regexes. You want "~", possibly "~ ^/(app1|app2)/".

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Andrew Deason
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