"root" directive weirdness

[Marcus Clyne]

Cliff Wells wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 02:45 +0200, Marcus Clyne wrote:
>   
>>>   
>>>       
>> but using
>>
>> location ^~ /users/ {
>>     root   /web;
>> }
>>
>> is more efficient than using
>>
>> location /users {
>>     root /web;
>> }
>>     
>
>
> That's not true.   The regex is less efficient.
>   
It's not a regex (regexes are indicated by ~*).  It's a test for the URL 
beginning with the represented string.  If found, it does not test any 
regexes.  Using just

location  /users

will test regexes before returning the /users location if no regexes match.

Marcus.