Location directive not working

Server NGINX
1

I set up two upstream servers (server 1 and server 2) where I geotarget
people from specific countries: A

People from country A go to server 1 and the others go to server 2.

There are some uri s that must be served by server 1 when the person is
in
country A. So I have created this directive. It works only when I
include
one item, when I do (videos|events) it does not work

location ^~ /(videos|events) {
proxy_pass http://$server1$request_uri;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

}

I do it this way because there are URLs that contain videos and events
that must be served by server 1. For example,
domain.com/videos/playing-with-my-dog etc. When I reload this directive
nginx does not give me any errors, but when I try to access it from
country B, it does not work.

Thanks for all your help!

Alex

2

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:30:21AM -0000, Alex wrote:

Hi there,

It works only when I include
one item, when I do (videos|events) it does not work

location ^~ /(videos|events) {

That is not a regex location. A request for /videos/ will not match it.

http://nginx.org/r/location

f

Francis D. [email protected]

3

Francis -

Thank you for your reply!

This OR regex : location ~* .(gif|jpg|jpeg)$

works on jogs and gifs, why can not I use the same syntax for the URIs
as
I am doing it?

Does it mean then that I have to define each location block one by one
with different URIs even though all the information inside the location
block is the same? Is there a regex to match the OR condition just as
you
do with jogs?

Thanks for your help!

4

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:31:30PM -0000, Alex wrote:

Hi there,

This OR regex : location ~* .(gif|jpg|jpeg)$

Which part of that line says that it is a regex?

(The answer is in the documentation.)

works on jogs and gifs, why can not I use the same syntax for the URIs as
I am doing it?

If you used the same syntax, it would probably work.

location ^~ /(videos|events) {

is not the same syntax.

Good luck with it,

f

Francis D. [email protected]

5

Francis -

What I meant was that I was using an OR statement as it is used in the
jpg
example. If I do this:

location ^~ /videos/ { # it works

location ^~ /(videos|events) { #it does not work. So I assume is the OR
that does not work.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Alex

6

Wow Francis.
You are a patient man. I love the way you teach things. I mean it all.

B. R.

7

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 04:44:49PM -0000, Alex wrote:

Hi there,

location ^~ /(videos|events) { #it does not work. So I assume is the OR
that does not work.

Any thoughts?

The documentation is at Module ngx_http_core_module.

It’s all useful, but the fourth sentence is particularly relevant.

This OR regex : location ~* .(gif|jpg|jpeg)$

Which part of that line says that it is a regex?

When you know the answer to that question, you’ll probably see that the
various squiggles after the word “location” aren’t just random.

f

Francis D. [email protected]

8

Thank you for your answer! I read the paragraph. I changed the
preceding
modifier to ~* and it works now.

I made a mistake addressing the OR condition and calling it regex sorry.

Thank you for your help!