Nginx – What does location ^~ mean in an nginx location block

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I am looking at an nginx location block that has this symbol ^~ before the location block. What does it do? I am having a hard time googling for it.

location ^~ /realestate/ {
    uwsgi_pass 127.0.0.1:2340;
    include /etc/nginx/uwsgi_params;
}

Best Answer

^ is the start of a match on the uri ~ indicates a regular expression match

/realestate/ without an explicit end will match on a uri beginning with /realestate/ in this case when using a regex match

More explicitly if your intent is to match on /realestate/ exactly location = /realestate/ would be a faster more optimized match

If your intent is really something like

location ^~ /realestate/.* this might be a little more accurate way to represent it

Related Solutions

NGINX Reverse Proxy – URL Rewrite

Any redirect to localhost doesn't make sense from a remote system (e.g. client's Web browser). So the rewrite flags permanent (301) or redirect (302) are not usable in your case.

Please try following setup using a transparent rewrite rule:

location  /foo {
  rewrite /foo/(.*) /$1  break;
  proxy_pass         http://localhost:3200;
  proxy_redirect     off;
  proxy_set_header   Host $host;
}

Use curl -i to test your rewrites. A very subtle change to the rule can cause nginx to perform a redirect.

Nginx location block specific file

Use the = location prefix to determine exact match. As it is written in nginx documentation: "If an exact match is found, the search terminates."

So, your location should look like:

location = /publish/domain.io.php {
  allow 127.0.0.1;
  deny all;              # Gives 403
}

location = /publish/domain.io.php {
  internal;              # Gives 404
}

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NGINX Reverse Proxy – URL Rewrite

Nginx location block specific file

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