[kwlug-disc] nginx config question

[Ronald Barnes]

Chris Frey wrote on 2023-09-28 09:32:

> I would suggest putting your 301 inside a location block that comes 
> last. In this case it would be:
 >
> location / { return 301 
>	https://$host$request_uri;
>	}
 >
> Your /ping would match ahead of this, 
> because it is longer. And any regex-based locations would match ahead of 
> /ping because they come earlier in the search order. And you still have 
> = and ^~ to use if you need to make sure one of the locations needs 
> priority behaviour over even the regex locations.

Ah, that's the trick.

The 301 in a location at the end, plus I am playing with "=" vs prefix 
matching "/ping" as well, but it all works now.


> Hope that helps,

Yeah, that made the light bulb turn on and I suddenly realized what I 
already knew but couldn't seem to put together on my own.


Thanks!

And thanks to Mikalai for his reply too.


rb