On Apr 22, 2009, at 2:42 AM, Igor Sysoev wrote:
> location ~ "^/(rsvp|pages|careers)/" ?

in it's entirety:

location ~ ^/(rsvp|pages|careers)/ {
if ( -f /home/artwelove/_current/web/www.artwelove.com-
downtime/-news ) {
return 503;
}
root /home/artwelove/_current/web/www.artwelove.com-news/news;
include /usr/local/nginx/_macros/php.conf;
index index.php index.html;
}

the if block was a trick i learned off this list to handle downtime
with semaphores

this block works perfectly as an exact match... and these locations
are just shotcuts to remove a few nested dirs off of a /news main
location. reaching this through /news/careers works as intended ;
rewriting this block to be location /careers works as intended.