Expires headers for url rewrite rules

[bogdanb]

In my config I have some url rewrite rules for images as seen below:

location / {
    rewrite ^/custom/path/(.*)/(.*)-(.*).jpg$
/media/images/products/$1/$3.jpg last;
}

They work just fine. I'm also trying to set Expire headers for all static
resources (images, css, js). I've added the following block for that:

location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
    expires 1y;
}

This works fine for everything except for the images that have the url
rewrite rules (which return 404 Not found). Anyone know what I'm doing wrong
here?

Thanks

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,243888,243888#msg-243888