Error with config when upgrading from 0.6.34 to 0.7.59 (the "alias" directive must use captures inside location given by regular expression)

[Jools Wills]

On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 11:41 +0400, Igor Sysoev wrote:

>   locaiton ~ ^/~([^/]+)(/?.*)$) { (i changed to location ~ ^/~([^/]+)(/?.*)$ {)
>       alias /home/$1/public_html/$2;
>       autoindex on;
>   }

this works well thanks. Are there any security risks with this? For
example could it be abused to gain access to another folder by using a
specific path ?

Best regards

Jools