Wildcards in valid_referers

Server NGINX
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I just updated my nginx from the 4.x series and noticed that a line in
my config was causing errors.

One of the domains in my old valid_referers line was .google. to catch
all the variations (like images.google.com and all the national variants
like .ca, .co.uk, etc.

The 5.X series nginx doesn’t seem to like that line. How should I change
it to make sure it catches all the google variants so I can exempt them
from my hotlinking check?

Thanks.

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On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 12:53:53AM -0500, Ian M. Evans wrote:

I just updated my nginx from the 4.x series and noticed that a line in
my config was causing errors.

One of the domains in my old valid_referers line was .google. to catch
all the variations (like images.google.com and all the national variants
like .ca, .co.uk, etc.

The 5.X series nginx doesn’t seem to like that line. How should I change
it to make sure it catches all the google variants so I can exempt them
from my hotlinking check?

The old versions did not support it too, although they did not warn
about this. Now you may use regex:

valid_referers ~.google. ;

Note the first ‘~’.

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Igor S. wrote:

The old versions did not support it too, although they did not warn
about this. Now you may use regex:

valid_referers ~.google. ;

Thanks for the speedy answer.