help with location and order

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:38:27AM +0200, Life Life wrote:

> I have this config, I need to use jpg in /data/abc/files/ but when I
> browse it nginx will use file jpg in /var/www/images (second condition),
> how to fix it?
> 
> root /var/www/images;
> 
> location = /abc/files/ {
>         alias /data/abc/files/;
>         break;
> }
>
> location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|swf|flv)$ {
>         access_log  off;
>         expires     1d;
> }

1) "break" is useless here and only wastes CPU cycles.
2) you may use "root" instead of "alias"
3) "=" is exact match, but not prefix match.
4) "^~" disables testing regexes, thus

 location ^~ /abc/files/ {
     root /data/;
 }


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