Problems getting case insensitive match to work

[Mario Gazzo]

Thanks a lot. This worked.

How is the ^ interpreted in NGINX? I did not find any examples/ 
documentation that indicated this was necessary. I like to understand  
why I need it.

Cheers
Mario

On 06/11/2008, at 11.19, Igor Sysoev wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:49:50AM +0100, Mario Gazzo wrote:
>
>> I have for some reasons difficulties to get the following nginx setup
>> to respond case insensitive to www.mydomain.dk/demo. It only responds
>> to www.mydomain.dk/Demo. Shouldn't "~*" make the match case
>> insensitive? The nginx reverseproxy server runs linux whereas the
>> application server is Windows Server 2003 with IIS.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Mario
>>
>> worker_processes  1;
>>
>> events {
>>    worker_connections  1024;
>> }
>>
>> http {
>>    include    mime.types;
>>    include    proxy.conf;
>>    default_type  application/octet-stream;
>>
>>    sendfile        on;
>>    keepalive_timeout  65;
>>
>>    upstream demo_hosts {
>>          server  192.168.0.97:80;
>>  	}
>>
>> server {
>>        listen 80;
>>
>>        server_name  www.mydomain.dk;
>>
>>        location ~* /Demo {
>>        	proxy_pass http://demo_hosts/Demo;
>>        }
>>
>>    }
>> }
>
> Try
>
>         location ~* ^/Demo {
>         	proxy_pass http://demo_hosts;
>         }
>
> proxy_pass inside location with regex may not have URI part (/Demo).
>
>
> -- 
> Igor Sysoev
> http://sysoev.ru/en/
>