design question: ngx.re.match vs nginx location regex

lionel.duboeuf · 2014-07-14T14:32:13+00:00

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design question: ngx.re.match vs nginx location regex

lionel.duboeuf

hello,

Just to have an advice, is it better to handle locations routing directly with nginx location directive or via ngx.re.match ?
( say i will have 10 locations at least)
Solution 1 (with locations regex directives):
location ~ ^/0.1/knowledges/(.*)/
   ...
}
location ~ ^/0.1/knowledges/(.*)/method1
   ...
}

location ~ ^/0.1/knowledges/(.*)/method2
   ...
}
...

or with ngx.re.match, there will be only one location in nginx.conf file:
location ~ ^/0.1/knowledges/(.*)/
   content_by_lua_file...(path to main file that handle routing to services)
}

thanks a lot!
regards

Lionel

agentzh

Hello!

On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Lionel Duboeuf wrote:
> Just to have an advice, is it better to handle locations routing directly
> with nginx location directive or via ngx.re.match ?
> ( say i will have 10 locations at least)

Either approach is fine. It is up to you :)

IMHO, if you have many such regexes or want to manage the dispatch
rules dynamically, then putting everything into your Lua code should
be more maintainable.

Regards,
-agentzh