Help with location tag / reg ex

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#1

I’d like to match all of the media files in this sub directory (and
subsequent directories) but its not working.

location ~* /_games/\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf|flv|mp3)$ {
  expires max;
}

My regular expression is off the mark…

Thanks

#2

On Thursday 29 December 2011 22:51:13 Ilan B. wrote:

I’d like to match all of the media files in this sub directory (and
subsequent directories) but its not working.

location ~* /_games/\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf|flv|mp3)$ {
  expires max;
}

My regular expression is off the mark…

Your regexp matches URIs only like these:
/_games/.gif
/_games/.flv
etc…

Probably, you want:

location ~* /_games/.+.(?:jpe?g|png|gif|swf|flv|mp3)$ {
expires max;
}

or, maybe:

location /_games/ {
location ~* .(?:jpe?g|png|gif|swf|flv|mp3)$ {
expires max;
}
}

Please, read:
man pcrepattern
man pcresyntax

wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev

#3

Thank you for your response, I was able to resolve, really appreciate
it.
My solution was along the same lines as yours.

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Valentin V. Bartenev [email protected]
wrote:

man pcresyntax

wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev

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