location vs. rewite

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Anton Yuzhaninov Wrote:
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> > rewrite ^/favicon.ico /var/www/media/images/favicon.X.ico last;
> 
> This is wrong - you can rewrite to other location, not to path on file
> system.
> Anyway rewrite does not need here, use location.


Sorry, my bad! In the second case, I meant rewrite ^/favicon.ico
/media/images/favicon.X.ico last;

but anyway, it seems that location works better in general.

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