nginx rewrite of certain mime types and request processing order

[Francis Daly]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:00:32AM -0500, technoplague wrote:

Hi there,

> The problem is with processing order and /get location rewrite. 
> The request: http://cf.domain.com/get/68175/fingergr.swf returns 404,
> instead by getting processed by /get location rewrite rule. This is because
> swf is defined in (static content) location:
> 
>     # static content
>     location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|swf|ico|rar|zip)$ {
>         expires max;
>         access_log off;
>         log_not_found off;
>     }
> 
> How is it possible to have /get location rewrite working together without
> removing swf type from static content location? 

http://nginx.org/r/location

Note particularly the various things in between "location" and "uri",
and the example configurations D and E.

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