Nginx location priority

Question

What order do location directives fire in

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Locations are evaluated in this order   location    path file ext    Exact match location     path     Priority prefix match - gt  longest first location    Paths       case-sensitive regexp  and location     paths       case-insensitive regexp  - gt  first match location  path     Prefix match - gt  longest first  The priority prefix match  number 2  is exactly as the common prefix match  number 4   but has priority over any regexp  For both prefix matche types the longest match wins  Case-sensitive and case-insensitive have the same priority  Evaluation stops at the first matching rule  Documentation says that all prefix rules are evaluated before any regexp  but  if one regexp matches then no standard prefix rule is used  That s a little bit confusing and does not change anything for the priority order reported above

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From the HTTP core module docs    Directives with the     prefix that match the query exactly  If found  searching stops  All remaining directives with conventional strings  If this match used the      prefix  searching stops  Regular expressions  in the order they are defined in the configuration file  If  3 yielded a match  that result is used  Otherwise  the match from  2 is used    Example from the documentation   location            matches the query   only      configuration A      location          matches any query  since all queries begin with    but regular     expressions and any longer conventional blocks will be     matched first      configuration B      location  documents        matches any query beginning with  documents  and continues searching      so regular expressions will be checked  This will be matched only if     regular expressions don t find a match      configuration C      location     images        matches any query beginning with  images  and halts searching      so regular expressions will not be checked      configuration D      location       gif jpg jpeg         matches any request ending in gif  jpg  or jpeg  However  all     requests to the  images  directory will be handled by     Configuration D         configuration E        If it s still confusing  here s a longer explanation

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There is a handy online tool for testing location priority now  location priority testing online

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It fires in this order        exactly      location    path      forward match      location     path     regular expression case sensitive      location    path       regular expression case insensitive      location      jpg png bmp         location  path

[nginx] Nginx location priority

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