Question

I would like to create a location rule for two alias to one location.

This is the rule used for one location:

location ~ ^/images/(.*)$ { alias /var/www2/images/$1; }

What I would like to do is define two alias in location. So for example,
I can visit http://domain.com/styles/file.css and http://domain.com/css/file.css
and it would go to one alias which is /var/www2/styles/

I’ve tried something like this, but it did not work for me.

location ~ ^/(styles|css)(.*)$ { alias /var/www2/styles/$1; }

But the again, I don’t know regex much.

Answer 1

Try:

location ~ ^/(?:styles|css)/(.*)$ { alias /var/www2/styles/$1; }

Or

location ~ ^/(styles|css)/(.*)$ { alias /var/www2/styles/$2; }

$1 refers to the first capturing group (...). When you added another group it referred to that one instead. You can use a non-capturing group (?:...) instead, or refer to the second capturing group $2.