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mahen3d
Asked: 2014-03-12 20:50:20 +0800 CST

Nginx - Meaning of the ~ (tilde) in the location block of the nginx.conf?

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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 "~" ?

nginx

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  1. Best Answer

    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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