What is the meaning of the tilde after the location block in the nginx configuration?
for example
location ~ ^/download/(.*)$ {
alias /home/website/files/$1;
}
What is the difference between with and without the "~" ?
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nginx.org/r/location– Michael HamptonCommented Mar 12, 2014 at 4:53
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A google search for "nginx tilde" gives the answer as the first result... Basic Nginx Configuration – Linode Library library.linode.com/web-servers/nginx/configuration/basic Jul 26, 2013 - When a location directive is followed by a tilde (~), nginx performs a regular expression match. These matches are always case-sensitive.– Drew KhouryCommented Mar 12, 2014 at 9:34
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The tilde instructs nginx to perform a case-sensitive regular expression match, instead of a straight string comparison.
More details in the docs.
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~*modifier for case-insensitive reg exp matching and^~modifier to override possible matches elsewhere. Commented Nov 20, 2020 at 18:51