On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 07:12:14PM -0400, George wrote:

> thanks Daniel much appreciated :)
>
> I had my configs with first line so guess it was a lucky copy and paste. But i've seen a handful of configs online exactly like the second line hmmm.

Current PCRE library handles equally these regexes

location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico)$ {

and

location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico)$ {

It parses a line from its start, but not from '$' anchor.


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