Alias not working on 0.7.35

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 09:51:39AM +0700, Glen Lumanau wrote:

> 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

You need to change order of regex locations:

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

         location ~ \.flv$ {
             flv;
         }

Otherwise, "\.flv$" is matched first.

> # 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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Igor Sysoev
> http://sysoev.ru/en/
> 

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Igor Sysoev
http://sysoev.ru/en/