Correct way to serve static files?

Server NGINX
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I’ve been looking over lots of nginx configurations and the way to serve
static files differed slightly, so which is the correct way as i’ve seen
the following syntax

location ~* .(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico)$ {

vs

    location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico)$ {

what’s the difference between the 2 ?

thanks

George

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On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:11 PM, George [email protected] wrote:

what’s the difference between the 2 ?

Read up on regexs, these are both similar in that they match urls ending
in
(jpg, jpeg etc.)
However there is one tiny difference, the first one requires there be a
dot
before the extension, whereas the second doesn’t, eg. it should match
“/somethingjpg” whereas the first would only match “/something.jpg”

The second one looks wrong, it probably wanted to be location ~*
^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico)$ {

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thanks Daniel much appreciated :slight_smile:

I had my configs with first line so guess it was a lucky copy and paste.
But i’ve seen a handful of configs online exactly like the second line
hmmm.

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On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 07:12:14PM -0400, George wrote:

thanks Daniel much appreciated :slight_smile:

I had my configs with first line so guess it was a lucky copy and paste. But i’ve seen a handful of configs online exactly like the second line hmmm.

Current PCRE library handles equally these regexes

    location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico)$ {

and

    location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico)$ {

It parses a line from its start, but not from ‘$’ anchor.