Correct way to serve static files ?

[George]

I've been looking over lots of nginx configurations and the way to serve static files differed slightly, so which is the correct way as i've seen the following syntax

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

vs

        location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico)$ {

what's the difference between the 2 ?

thanks

George

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