Nginx vhost configuration questions

Question

I have a NginX vhost, where all static content is served by nginx and anything that's not found or ends with php proxies to apache.

Just wanted to check if I have locations right:

location / {
  try_files $uri $uri/ @proxy;
  expires 30d;
}

location ~* \.php$ {
   proxy_pass      http://127.0.0.1:8080;
} 

location @proxy {
   proxy_pass      http://127.0.0.1:8080;
}

I was also wondering if there is a way to make second location go to third so that I do not have to repeat the proxy_pass line twice?

I have few other questions:

• Does nginx read locations from top to bottom and does it stop looking at next location if curent request matches one of the locations? For example, if server.com/image.jpg is requested, does it mean the very first location declaration will capture it in my locations, and rest will be ignored?

• If I do expires max; or expires 30d; but then site is updated and I want to force user browsers to reload the file right away, is there anything I can do to make them reload?

• my very first location declaration will match anypath that ends with .js, .css, .png and so on, but is it case sensitive? will it also match .PNG ? Should I make it case sensitive or not? If yes, how?

• Is there anything else you think would improve this configuration?

Answer 1

location / {
  try_files $uri $uri/ @proxy;
  expires 30d;
}

location ~* \.php$ {
   root @proxy;
} 

location @proxy {
   proxy_pass      http://127.0.0.1:8080;
}

Should do it