nginx is too greedy with urls

[shiz]

If you're from the apache world, nginx configuration if often
counter-intuitive.

Does the following help?


# To find location matching a given request, nginx first checks locations
defined
# using the prefix strings (prefix locations). Among them, the location with
the
# longest matching prefix is selected and remembered.
# Then regular expressions are checked, in the order of their appearance in
# the configuration file.
# The first matching expression stops the search and nginx will use this
location.
# If the longest matching prefix location has the '^~' modifier then
regular
# expressions are not checked.
# Also, using the '=' modifier it is possible to define an exact match of
URI
# and location. If an exact match is found, the search terminates.

Posted at Nginx Forum: https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,266524,266527#msg-266527