Confused by documentation for /alias/

[Boyko Yordanov]

Hi,

Because of the $ symbol on the location line which marks 'end of line'. Remove the $ symbol and you'll have book.pdf/ working.

Boyko

On Aug 10, 2011, at 1:15 PM, graq wrote:

> Hi
> 
> From: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule
> 
> __BEGIN__
> For example:
> 
> location ~ ^/download/(.*)$ {
>  alias /home/website/files/$1;
> }
> The request "/download/book.pdf" will return the file
> "/home/website/files/book.pdf". Note again that only part of the request
> URI after the location is appended to the path defined by alias.
> ___END___
> 
> Why doesn't this return the directory "home/website/files/book.pdf/" ?
> 
> Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,213617,213617#msg-213617