How to make nginx to stop processing other rules and serve a specific location?

Question

I have this config that works as expected in an empty server { } definition

location ^~ /foo/ {
    al         


        

Answer 1

You are probably looking for break.

location ^~ /foo/ {
    alias /var/www/foo/;
    break;
}

From the HttpRewriteModule documentation:

last - completes processing of current rewrite directives and restarts the process (including rewriting) with a search for a match on the URI from all available locations.

break - completes processing of current rewrite directives and non-rewrite processing continues within the current location block only.

Note that outside location blocks, last and break are effectively the same.