help with location tag / reg ex

[Ilan Berkner]

Thank you for your response, I was able to resolve, really appreciate it.
 My solution was along the same lines as yours.

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Valentin V. Bartenev <ne at vbart.ru> wrote:

> On Thursday 29 December 2011 22:51:13 Ilan Berkner wrote:
> > I'd like to match all of the media files in this sub directory (and
> > subsequent directories) but its not working.
> >
> >     location ~* /_games/\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf|flv|mp3)$ {
> >       expires max;
> >     }
> >
> > My regular expression is off the mark...
> >
>
> Your regexp matches URIs only like these:
> /_games/.gif
> /_games/.flv
> etc...
>
> Probably, you want:
>
>  location ~* /_games/.+\.(?:jpe?g|png|gif|swf|flv|mp3)$ {
>      expires max;
>  }
>
> or, maybe:
>
>  location /_games/ {
>      location ~* \.(?:jpe?g|png|gif|swf|flv|mp3)$ {
>         expires max;
>      }
>  }
>
> Please, read:
>  man pcrepattern
>  man pcresyntax
>
>
> wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev
>
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