static files and 404

[Igor Sysoev]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 01:26:29PM -0500, Nick Pearson wrote:

> Here's a simplified version of I use the following to accomplish this,
> inside my location block:
> 
> if ($uri ~* (\.css|\.js|\.ico|\.gif|\.jpg|\.png)) {
>   break;
> }
> 
> Note that I haven't tested this simplified form directly, but I believe it
> should work.

"if ($uri ~" or "if ($request_filename ~" means that you should use
locations as here:

location / {
    ...
}

location ~* \.(?:css|js|ico|gif|jpg|png)$ {
    ...
}

> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Marcelo Barbudas <nostef at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a setup where I am using nginx with RubyOnRails.
> >
> > The setup looks simple:
> > if (!-f $request_filename) {
> >  proxy_pass http://domain1;
> >  break;
> > }
> >
> > However I have a directory that holds images that sometimes get deleted.
> > People keep linking to those images and the 404s go to the rails process.
> >
> > How can I tell nginx that any request towards:
> > /images/subassets/*.gif
> > should never be forwarded to rails?
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> > M.
> >
> >

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