Serve static files with NGINX only

Resolved gioni
(@gioni)

11 years ago

I really like BWM. I decide to use it on all of my sites. But I am confused about using suggested rewrite rules for NGINX. I can’t realize why do you use rule that rise apache to server static files? Why NGINX can’t serve that files directly?
I tell about this line:
rewrite ^/cache/minify-b(\d+)-([a-zA-Z0-9-_.]+)\.(css|js)$ /index.php?blog=$1&min_group=$2&min_type=$3 last;

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bwp-minify/

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Plugin Author

Khang Minh

(@oddoneout)

10 years, 11 months ago

I take that back, let me recheck this.

Thread Starter

gioni

(@gioni)

10 years, 10 months ago

Still waiting for that 🙂

Plugin Author

Khang Minh

(@oddoneout)

10 years, 10 months ago

According to the current nginx rules:

set $minify_static "";
if ($http_cache_control = false) {
    set $minify_static "C";
    set $http_cache_control "";
}
if ($http_cache_control !~* no-cache) {
    set $minify_static "C";
}
if ($http_if_modified_since = false) {
    set $minify_static "${minify_static}M";
}
if (-f $request_filename$zip_ext) {
    set $minify_static "${minify_static}E";
}
if ($minify_static = CME) {
    rewrite (.*) $1$zip_ext break;
}
rewrite ^/wp-content/plugins/bwp-minify/cache/minify-b(\d+)-([a-zA-Z0-9-_.]+)\.(css|js)$ /index.php?blog=$1&min_group=$2&min_type=$3 last;

We only hit apache when:
1. A refresh is initiated from user
2. The cached file is not there (see the -f $request_filename check)

which means nginx is used to serve static files whenever possible, unless instructed to do otherwise.

I hope that makes sense.

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