nginX matching path after host

Question

I'm trying to implement the following rule:

location ~ ^/stylesheets|javascripts|assets/

However it's matching against:

mysite.com/something/something/javascripts

My thought was this simple regex would only match.

mysite.com/javascripts

I want it to ignore nesting, what is wrong here?

user507077 · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-14 16:52:53Z

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You have to group the OR'ed expression: ^/(stylesheets|javascripts|assets)/

Otherwise you'd have three slightly different potential matches:

answered May 14, 2012 at 16:52

user507077

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Thanks! this is what I was missing.