Alias not working on 0.7.35

[Glen Lumanau]

Here's my configuration

        root    /home/myhome;

        access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log;

        location ~ \.flv$ {
            flv;
        }

        location    /default {
            alias  /home/yourhome/content;
        }

        location ~ ^/default/(.+\.flv)$ {
            alias  /home/yourhome/content/$1;
            flv;
        }

When I tried to access /default/filename.flv, it still redirect me to
/home/myhome/default/filename.flv. And it shows file not found

# nginx -v
nginx version: nginx/0.7.46

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nginx at sysoev.ru [mailto:owner-nginx at sysoev.ru] On Behalf Of Igor
Sysoev
Sent: 01 April 2009 12:04
To: nginx at sysoev.ru
Subject: Re: Alias not working on 0.7.35

On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 09:59:39AM +0700, Glen Lumanau wrote:

> 2009/3/31 Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 01:56:01PM +0700, Glen Lumanau wrote:
> >
> > > I tried to put this configuration on my nginx.conf
> > >
> > >     location  /default/ {
> > >         alias  /home/myhome/content/;
> > >     }
> > >
> > >         location ~ \.flv$ {
> > >             flv;
> > >         }
> > >
> > > But it doesn't work.
> > >
> > > When opening a FLV files, it always pointed me to the root directory
> > which
> > > is /home/myhome
> > >
> > > Is there anythink i've missed?
> >
> > You need the last 0.7.x:
> >
> >     location    /default/ {
> >         alias  /home/myhome/content/;
> >     }
> >
> >      location ~ ^/default/(.+\.flv)$ {
> >         alias  /home/myhome/content/$1;
> >         flv;
> >     }
> 
> Why do we need to put an alias on the flv?

Because "/default/some.flv" will choose "\.flv$" location, but not
"/default/" one.

> Is this method not work on 0.6.35 ?

No, currently 0.6.x does support captures in location, and I'm not sure
if I will merged it from 0.7: there are many changes in location processing
in 0.7.


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Igor Sysoev
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