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1467	Problem of location matching with a given request	samilko.ka@…	Yaroslav Zhuravlev	"Hi, guys. I've got a problem with location request and regexp, 'cause the nginx is not finding match like it describes here: https://nginx.ru/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#location

My request is: 

http://localhost:8080/catalog/css/asdftail

My conf is:
{{{
server {
    listen 8080;

    location ~ ^/catalog/(js|css|i)/(.*)$
    {
            return 405;
    }
    location / {
            location ~ ^.+tail$ {
                    return 403;
            }
            return 402;
    }
}
}}}
My problem is:
With my request, my conf must return me 405 error, but it return me 403 error, 'cause nginx starts to check regexp location from ""the location with the longest matching prefix is selected and remembered."", not from top of config - ""Then regular expressions are checked, in the order of their appearance in the configuration file.""

If my conf likes this:

{{{
server {
    listen 8080;

    location ~ ^/catalog/(js|css|i)/(.*)$
    {
            return 405;
    }
    
    location ~ ^.+tail$ {
            return 403;
    }

    location / {

            return 402;
    }
}
}}}
or this:
{{{
server {
    listen 8080;

    location catalog/ {
        location ~ ^/catalog/(js|css|i)/(.*)$
        {
                return 405;
        }
    }
    location / {
            location ~ ^.+tail$ {
                    return 403;
            }
            return 402;
    }
}
}}}
Then all works like in manual."	defect	accepted	minor		documentation	1.13.x		location, manual		Linux myserver 3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 22 21:09:27 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux	"nginx version: nginx/1.13.8
built by gcc 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-16) (GCC) 
built with OpenSSL 1.0.2k-fips  26 Jan 2017
TLS SNI support enabled
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