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meder omuraliev
Asked: 2010-10-03 14:28:51 +0800 CST

How can I make nginx support @font-face formats and allow access-control-allow-origin?

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I've added these rules to mime.types:

application/x-font-ttf                ttf;
font/opentype                         otf;
application/vnd.ms-fontobject         eot;
font/x-woff                           woff;

Now the Content-Type header is being set properly per each of those. My only issue now is that Firefox requires Access-Control-Allow-Origin. I have googled this answer and added this to my server directive:

location ~* \.(eot|ttf|woff)$ {
    add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *;
}

but now my fonts aren't being served at all.

Instead the error.log reports that it's trying to open them on the local filesystem..

2010/10/02 22:20:21 [error] 1641#0: *15 open() "/usr/local/nginx/html/fonts/mgopenmodernabold-webfont.woff" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 69.164.216.142, se rver: static.arounds.org, request: "HEAD /fonts/mgopenmodernabold-webfont.woff HTTP/1.1", host: "static.arounds.org"

Any ideas what could be off with the syntax? Do I need to explicitly add a rule saying don't try to open it locally or what?

EDIT: I think the problem is that I'm serving 2 different locations now. And instead of that I should do the regex check inside of the main one then feed the header.

nginx http-headers

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Woot! Got it.. It was pretty much what I suspected in my edit, I had to basically do the regex filename check in my sole location {} instead of making an alternative one.

        location / { 
            root /www/site.org/public/;
            index index.html;

            if ($request_filename ~* ^.*?/([^/]*?)$)
            {
                set $filename $1; 
            }

            if ($filename ~* ^.*?\.(eot)|(ttf)|(woff)$){
                add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *;
            }
    }
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  2. location ~* \.(eot|ttf|woff)$ {
    add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *;
}

    If you have other font extensions, pay close attention to add them as well. Nowdays it common to have: eot|ttf|woff|woff2|svg, so you should adjust like so:

    location ~* \.(eot|ttf|woff|woff2|svg)$ {
    add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *;
}
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  3. All assets

    This will make all assets work fine. You can add root if you want to define a new location

    location ~ \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico|html|woff|woff2|ttf|svg|eot|otf)$ {
    add_header "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" "*";
    expires 1M;
    access_log off;
    add_header Cache-Control "public";
}
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  4. another solution : put all your fonts in, for example, static/fonts, and add

    location /static/fonts  {
    add_header "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" *;
    alias /var/www/mysite/static/fonts;
}
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