Nginx Rewrite - How to redirect url for certain file type?

Question

My current bargain CDN has very poor performance on video caching. What's worse, I don't have any access to its setting.

So I am wondering is it possible to rewrite the url for certain file type to my server's IP address instead the CDN server?

should be something like this in Apache: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7154666/apache-mod-rewrite-redirect-file-type-to-another-domain

Answer 1

Add to your nginx config file somethink like:

location ~* \.(gif|jpg|jpeg)$ {
    rewrite ^(.*) http://someserver.com/$1 last;
}

You can see examples of nginx configuration of rewriting for example here and some examples of location directive here