Need some help with rewrite rule translation

[Jonathan Matthews]

On 13 June 2013 09:38,  <mailinglisten at simonhoenscheid.de> wrote:
[snip]
>> RewriteRule ^favicon\.ico$ - [R=404,L]
>
> location /(^favicon)/(.*\.(ico)) {
> return 404;

Don't do that. You're only hurting yourself. Just return an empty gif
(http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpEmptyGifModule) or ico/etc equivalent.

Jonathan
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