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 blocks in Nginx are exclusive. If you use location ^~ then other rules probably expiry headers for static objects will not apply unless you copy those rules as nested under the same location block.

If you could share your full config then I can make it work for you. Most likely you need to use nested location blocks.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

You are probably looking for break.

location ^~ /foo/ {
    alias /var/www/foo/;
    break;
}

From the HttpRewriteModule documentation:

last - completes processing of current rewrite directives and restarts the process (including rewriting) with a search for a match on the URI from all available locations.

break - completes processing of current rewrite directives and non-rewrite processing continues within the current location block only.

Note that outside location blocks, last and break are effectively the same.