Nginx location "not equal to" regex
Solution 1:
According to nginx documentation
there is no syntax for NOT matching a regular expression. Instead, match the target regular expression and assign an empty block, then use location / to match anything else
So you could define something like
location ~ (dir1|file2\.php) {
# empty
}
location / {
rewrite ^/(.*) http://example.com/$1 permanent;
}
Solution 2:
i was looking for the same. and found this solution.
Use negative regex assertion:
location ~ ^/(?!(favicon\.ico|resources|robots\.txt)) {
.... # your stuff
}
Source Negated Regular Expressions in location
Explanation of Regex :
If URL does not match any of the following path
example.com/favicon.ico
example.com/resources
example.com/robots.txt
Then it will go inside that location block and will process it.