Preferred method for location blocks

Server NGINX
1

What is the difference between:

location /admin {
}

vs.

location ~ /admin(/.*) {
}

The first seems cleaner, and I assume runs faster - but do they process
differently?

–
Daniel

2

On 01.04.2015 23:55, Daniel Miller wrote:

The first seems cleaner, and I assume runs faster - but do they process
differently?

Yes, they process differently.

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#location

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/request_processing.html

–
Best regards,
Gena