How to make an nginx redirect with a condition?

Question

Nginx

How to:
if example.com/static.* then 404
otherwise
return 301 https://myexample.com$request_uri ;
Trying to describe how in nginx:

server {
if ($host = example.com) {
  if ($request_uri = "static.*") { return 404 ; }
  }
if ($host = example.com) {
    return 301 https://myexample.com$request_uri;
    }
}
}

Answer 1

Make a location with the necessary expression instead of if - then the redirect to the error will work only inside it.