Hello!
The reason being that the asterisk "*" is irrelevant in the PCRE (Perl
Regex syntax) expression for what you intend it to do.
Try the following, instead (no regex):
location /static/ {
root /home/yasar/public_html;
}
Hope it helps,
Andrejs
Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,212661,212662#msg-212662