location into location doen't work as expected

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:04:40PM +0200, Daniele Melosi wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've the following location configuration that doesn't work as expected 
> (i symplified my configuration with return value instead of rewrite):
> 
> location ^~ /image/ {
>   location ^~ /image/(halfcol|medium|thumb)/ {
>      return 402;
>    }
>    location ^~ /image/ {
>      return 403;
>    }
> }
> 
> if i tried to get a /image/halfcol/something i expected to received a 
> 402 return code.
> 
> $ HEAD http://localhost/image/halfcol/pippo.jpg | head -n1
> 403 Forbidden
> 
> I got a 403 instead :(

The "^~" is not regex, conversely it disables to run regex, therefore:

   location /image/ {
       return  403;
   }

   location ~ ^/image/(halfcol|medium|thumb)/ {
       return  402;
   }


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