Fantastic Igor - I didn't know that you could do named captures in Nginx - good to know.
That solves it rather nicely. And thanks B.R. - yep, that syntax is part of PCRE. Pete > I think Igor is suggesting PERL named captures. > > Although, it appears to me the correct syntax would rather be (?<name>...), > as perlre docs <http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html#Extended-Patterns >state. > Then, just use you first syntax (omitting the 'set' directives). > --- > *B. R.* > > > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Igor Sysoev <igor at sysoev.ru> wrote: > > > On 28 May 2014, at 08:55, Peter Mescalchin <peter.mescalchin at gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > Thanks Igor, > > > > I had explored that method already, sadly (as you know) "alias" is > > given as an absolute path meaning I can't use this block of config within > > multiple virtual hosts which I include; - would have to re-write this same > > block of config for each Virtual host modifying the alias path prefix. > > > > And since alias man page explicitly states that $document_root can't be > > used it's not possible to complete this config in a reusable way. (e.g. > > alias $document_root/path/to/$1/$2; would be perfect). > > > > Alas, I think what I have (storing the captures in temp vars) is the only > > real solution thus far. > > > > Unless the penny hasn't dropped in my head? :) > > > > > > Then you can set these variable directly in regex: > > location ~ "^/[a-f0-9]{16}/(<?resource_type>css|js)/(<?resource_path>.+)” { > > > > > > -- > > Igor Sysoev > > http://nginx.com
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