either error log empty or access log empty

[zhnupy]

thanks Francis,  after testing one by one it was easier to isolate my
problem. I have a location definition which turns off the access log,
but it doesn't suppose to fire every time, just for specific file
extensions,  here is the entire server block:

 52         server {
 53                 listen 80 default_server;
 54                 server_name www.DOMAIN_A.com *.DOMAIN_A.com;
 55                 error_log  /var/log/nginx/DOMAIN_A.error.log debug;
 56                 access_log  /var/log/nginx/DOMAIN_A.access.log;
 57
 58                 root /srv/www/DOMAIN_A.com/public_html;
 59
 60                 error_page 404 /404.html;
 61
 62                 location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html)$ {
 63                 #       access_log off;
 64                         expires max;
 65                 }
 66
 67                 location ~ /\.ht {
 68                         deny  all;
 69                 }
 70         }

The desired intention of  line 62 is to turn off access log only for
resources with given extensions, however I found it is firing everytime.


for instance, this URL:  http://DOMAIN_A/aaaa.txt  is not supposed to
fire that rule, but it does. As soon as I comment line 63 (and restart
nginx)  the access log gets updated. I have repeated this several times
(adding/removing comment in line 63) with same results.

I don't see nothing wrong with that regular expression, so I'm not sure
what is going on.

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,224315,224360#msg-224360