You can also turn that into a regex location (or location with captures in
0.7) and take it out of the main location block. I am not 100% sure, but my
intuition tells me that the location block performs much (well, at least a
little) better than the if block. It looks cleaner, anyway :).

- Merlin

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Nick Pearson <nick.pearson@gmail.com>wrote:

> Here's a simplified version of I use the following to accomplish this,
> inside my location block:
>
> if ($uri ~* (\.css|\.js|\.ico|\.gif|\.jpg|\.png)) {
> break;
> }
>
> Note that I haven't tested this simplified form directly, but I believe it
> should work.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Marcelo Barbudas <nostef@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a setup where I am using nginx with RubyOnRails.
>>
>> The setup looks simple:
>> if (!-f $request_filename) {
>> proxy_pass http://domain1;
>> break;
>> }
>>
>> However I have a directory that holds images that sometimes get deleted.
>> People keep linking to those images and the 404s go to the rails process.
>>
>> How can I tell nginx that any request towards:
>> /images/subassets/*.gif
>> should never be forwarded to rails?
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> M.
>>
>>
>