Nginx rewrite rule to server images from subdomain

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I'd like all my images (jpg|gif|png) which currently being serversd from mydomain.com/files/ to be servered from a second machine which I've set up to server files from static.mydomain.com.

I am wondering how should I define nginx rewrite rule to do so?

Thanks

Best Answer

You can use proxy pass: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpProxyModule#proxy_pass

In your case this could be something like:

location /mydomain.com/files/.*\.(jpg|gif|png) {
       proxy_pass http://static.mydomain.com;
       proxy_set_header X-Real-IP  $remote_addr;
       proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
         }

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Nginx Mod Rewrite – Rewrite .png to .php

Requests for .png files are being handled by your location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$. Just stop that from handling png files and add a new location that only handles them:

server {
  location ~* \.(js|css|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
    # the same stuff you already had in here
  }

  location ~* ^(?<basename>.*)\.png$ {
    rewrite ^ $basename.php last;
  }

  # your other locations
}

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Your proxy_pass solution wouldn't result in a cookieless domain. Your dynamic content would set cookies on www.mydomain.com and you'd be back where you started (but with additional needless latency).

The first solution is the better of the two, but the best might be something like Amazon's CloudFront CDN with an origin of www.mydomain.com for static content.

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