How to change url in location of nginx config?

Question

Nginx

Hello! The question is this: it is necessary to change the extension of pictures to webp in the wp-content folder and in subfolders, now the extensions are changing starting from the parent public_html folder, here is the code (angle brackets replaced with%, otherwise it is filtered before publication):
map $http_accept $webp_ext {
default " ";
"~image\/webp" ".webp";
}

map $uri $file_ext {
default "";
"~(\.\w+)$" $1;
}

server {
location ~* "^(?%path%.+)\.(png|jpeg|jpg)$" {
try_files $path$webp_ext $path$file_ext =404;
}
you need to implement something like this:
location ~* "^(?%path%wp-content.+)\.(png|jpeg|jpg)$" {
try_files $path$webp_ext $path$file_ext =404;
}

Answer 1

How to change url in location of nginx config?

With the help of the rewrite module .

Answer 2

The string that location works with starts with c /
You just need to add /beforewp-content

location ~* "^(?<path>/wp-content.+)\.(png|jpeg|jpg)$"