nginx location regex not working

Question

I'm trying to setup location directive to match my request but can't get it working.

Below is my sample request:

/APP/public/api/v1/item/100/type

location ~* ^/APP/public/api/v1/item/(.*)/type { try_files /APP/data/type/$1.json @apache; }

If I set like below it works:

location = ^/APP/public/api/v1/item/100/type { try_files /APP/data/type/100.json @apache; }

Am I missing anything ? Thanks.

I am not sure if this causes your issue, but your regular expression isn't optimal. location ~* ^/APP/public/api/v1/item/([0-9]+)/type$ { allows only numbers one or more times and makes sure there can't be anything extra after the "type" suffix. — Tero Kilkanen
– Tero Kilkanen, Commented Sep 3, 2016 at 1:59
Second example couldn't match anything. Either it's a typo or your request is processed within some other location. — Alexey Ten
– Alexey Ten, Commented Sep 3, 2016 at 8:08

Jonah Benton · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-03 03:00:09Z

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Try just setting up the context for request processing, and then use a rewrite rule inside of that context, something like:

location ~ ^/APP/public/api/v1/item/ { rewrite ^/APP/public/api/v1/item/([0-9]+)/type /APP/data/type/$1.json break; try_files $uri @apache; }

answered Sep 2, 2016 at 19:04

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