Nginx regex rule for caching images override the root location block

Question

My nginx setup contains the following location rules:

 location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|css|js|pdf)$ { expires 7d; } location /data/ { root /mnt/data; } 

The problem is, when I try to access one of the following files (jpg | jpeg | png | gif | ico | css | js | pdf) in the /data/ folder I get 404 Not Found error, cause the first location rule overrides the second. I tried to do something like this:

 location ~* /data/.*\.jpg$ { root /mnt/data; expires 7d; } 

But this doesn't seems to work. Could you please help me what solutions are available for me in this case?

Answer 1

Solutions are:

#1 Rule duplication

location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|css|js|pdf)$ { expires 7d; } location /data/ { root /mnt/data; location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|css|js|pdf)$ { expires 7d; } } 

#2 Symlink

You can create a symlink: $document_root/data -> /mnt/data.