Location regex

[Igor Sysoev]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 01:37:04AM +0000, Mathew Davies wrote:

> >
> > A more efficient way of doing this is :
> >
> 
> I do not see why. I am specifying "return 403" 3 times vs once. I was it
> doing it this way before and did not think it was so efficient.
> 
> Here is my full config
> 
> server {
> >         listen 80;
> >         server_name ---;
> >         root /home/website/www/---/public/;
> >         index index.php index.html index.htm;
> >
> >         # Logs
> >         access_log /home/website/www/---/log/access.log combined;
> >         error_log /home/website/www/---/log/error.log warn;
> >
> >         # Protect certain directories.
> >         location ~* ^/(library|conf|appg) {
> >                 return 403;
> >         }
> >
> >         # Cache forum assets for as long as possible.
> >         location ~* \.(css|js|gif|ico)$ {
> >                 expires max;
> >                 add_header Cache-Control private;
> >                 break;
> >         }
> >
> >         location ~* \.php$ {
> >                 fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
> >                 fastcgi_index index.php;
> >                 fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
> > $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
> >                 include fastcgi_params;
> >         }
> > }
> >

In this configuration http://domain.com/appg/.file should be handled by
         location ~* ^/(library|conf|appg) {
Could you create debug of the request ?

> Thank you for the quick response.
> 
> 2009/10/28 Marcus Clyne <maccaday at gmail.com>
> 
> > Mathew Davies wrote:
> >
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >> I am having trouble with a location regular expression.
> >>
> >>    location ~* ^/(library|conf|appg) {
> >>      return 403;
> >>    }
> >>
> >>  A more efficient way of doing this is :
> >
> > location ^~ /library {
> >   return   403;
> > }
> >
> > location ^~ /conf {
> >   return   403;
> > }
> >
> > location ^~ /appg {
> >   return   403;
> > }
> >
> > since it checks the URLs using string comparison (rather than regexes) and
> > will halt location-searching immediately if it matches one of the above
> > locations.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> It is my understanding the following regular expression should match any
> >> uri starting with library, conf or appg. However, this is not the case.
> >>
> >> For instance.
> >>
> >>    http://domain.com/appg/
> >>
> >>
> >> will match fine where as
> >>
> >>    http://domain.com/appg/.file
> >>
> >>
> >> wont match (causing the file to be downloaded)
> >>
> >> Am I doing something inherently wrong or is this a bug in Nginx?
> >>
> > There's probably some other location directive in your conf that is
> > matching http://domain.com/appg/.file.  If you don't want to use the more
> > efficient, static locations above, try posting your full conf file.
> >
> > Marcus.
> >
> >

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