Hello,
Thanks for that... I thought the ^~ was meaning 'starting with regex'...
My bad!
I changed the symbol for some of the ones relly meaning 'regex' (~*)
and it works! :o)
If there is no better way than sticking with
'if', then it's all good.
Thanks again, problem solved,
---
*B. R.*
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Francis Daly <fran...@daoine.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 05:29:18AM -0400, B.R. wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> > The *correct* way:
> > location ^~ /documents/(\w+) {
> > set $user $1;
> > if ($user != $remote_user) {
> > return 503;
> > }
> > }
> >
> > Although the syntax is now OK and the configuration is able to be
> reloaded,
> > it doesn't seem to work at all...
>
> I haven't tested the "if" part; but in this case it's mostly likely that
> this location{} block is not being used at all.
>
> Your configuration is syntactically correct, so nginx can load it.
>
> But it is not semantically correct, as in "it does not mean what you want
> it to mean".
>
> http://nginx.org/r/location
>
> "^~" does not mean "this is a regex location"
>
> f
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> Francis Daly fran...@daoine.org
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