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Evgenii Iablokov
Asked: 2012-07-09 22:13:22 +0800 CST

Nginx static files exclude one or some file extensions

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I'm serving up a static site via nginx.

    location ~* \.(avi|bin|bmp|dmg|doc|docx|dpkg|exe|flv|gif|htm|html|ico|ics|img|jpeg|jpg|m2a|m2v|mov|mp3|mp4|mpeg|mpg|msi|pdf|pkg|png|ppt|pptx|ps|rar|rss|rtf|swf|tif|tiff|txt|wmv|xhtml|xls|xml|zip)$ {
        root /var/www/html1;
        access_log off;
        expires 1d;
    }

And my goal is to exclude requests like http://connect1.webinar.ru/converter/task/. Full view is like http://mydomain.tld/converter/task/setComplete/fid/34330/fn/7c2cfed32ec2eef6788e728fa46f7a80.ppt.swf. Despite the fact these URLs ends in such a format they are not static, but fake script requests, so I have a problems with them.

What is the best way to do this? How can I add an exclusion for this URL or maybe I can to exclude the specific file exptension (.ppt.swf, pptx.swf) from the list of this Nginx location?

Thanks.

nginx static-content exclude

3 Answers

  1. Since you're using regular expression in your location for static files, you can just add !pptx?\.swf condition to it and exclude condition swf

    Your location will look like this:

    location ~* \.(avi|bin|bmp| ... |!pptx?\.swf)$ {
        root /var/www/html1;
        access_log off;
        expires 1d;
}

    And don't forget to add separate location for *.swf files:

    location ~* [0-9a-z]*\.swf$
        root /var/www/html1;
        access_log off;
        expires 1d;
}
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  2. Best Answer
    location ~* \.(?:avi|bin|bmp| ... |(?<!\.pptx\.|\.ppt\.)swf)$ {
    root /var/www/html1;
    access_log off;
    expires 1d;
}

    .

    $ man pcrepattern
$ man pcresyntax
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  3. You can exclude a specific file or folder with this code in your NGINX configuration.

    If you want to exclude specific file add this code

    location / {
    rewrite ^/((?!manifest.json|pwabuildersw.js).*)$ /index.php?slug=$1 last;
}

    If you want to ignore specific folder add this

    location /assets {
  # Nothing here
}

    Reference:- Ignore or Exclude specific files or complete folder in NGINX

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