How to make nginx to stop processing other rules and serve a specific location?

Question

I have this config that works as expected in an empty server { } definition

location ^~ /foo/ {
    al         


        

Answer 1

location = /aliasname/ { 
  alias /path/to/alias/
}

Trailing slash will be a problem if it is not present in URI. See https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/understanding-nginx-server-and-location-block-selection-algorithms#matching-location-blocks