https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/understanding-nginx-server-and-location-block-selection-algorithms

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#location

location [ = | ~ | ~* | ^~ ] uri { ... }
location @name { ... }

• (none) : prefix matching
• = : exact matching
• ~ : case-sencitive matching
• ~* : case-insensitive matching
• ^~ : non-regular expressing matching
• @ : defines a named location

예시

location = / {
    [ configuration A ]
}
 
location / {
    [ configuration B ]
}
 
location /documents/ {
    [ configuration C ]
}
 
location ^~ /images/ {
    [ configuration D ]
}
 
location ~* \\.(gif|jpg|jpeg)$ {
    [ configuration E ]
}

• / → configuration A
  • 인덱스 요청 처리 시 유의
• /index.html → configuration B
• /document/document.html → configuration C
• /images/1.gif → configuration D
• /document/1.gif → configuration E