Why doesn't nginx take a more appropriate location?

Question

Nginx

I don't understand why a redirect is not being made from the forum to the desired page. As I understand it, nginx should handle the most matching location. That is, if a request comes in site123435654.ru/forum/ , then it should take the /forum/ location, and it takes and goes to the / location for some reason. The config is like this:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name site123435654.ru www.site123435654.ru;
    rewrite        ^ https://$server_name$request_uri? permanent;
}

server {
    listen 443 ssl;
    keepalive_timeout    70;
    keepalive_requests   150;
    server_name site123435654.ru www.site123435654.ru;
    set $server_root /usr/portal5/www;
    ssl_protocols           TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
    ssl_dhparam             /etc/ssl/dhparam.pem;
    ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES128-GCM-SHA256:kEDH+AESGCM:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:AES:CAMELLIA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!RC4:!MD5:!PSK:!aECDH:!EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA:!EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:!KRB5-DES-CBC3-SHA';
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
    ssl_certificate  /etc/ssl/certs/key.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key  /etc/ssl/private/key2021.key;
    ssl_session_cache       shared:SSL:10m;
    ssl_session_timeout     10m;
    server_name_in_redirect  off;
    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;
    index index.php;
    error_page   500 502 503 504  /500.html;
    error_page 404 = /404.php;
    proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For  $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header  Host        $host:443;
    client_max_body_size 1024M;
    client_body_buffer_size 4M;
    proxy_set_header HTTPS YES;
    add_header X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN;

    location / {
        root $server_root;

        expires modified 2d;

        if ($request_method = OPTIONS)          {proxy_pass http://upstream;}
        if ($request_method = PROPFIND)         {proxy_pass  http://upstream;}
        if ($request_method = PROPPATCH)        {proxy_pass  http://upstream;}
        if ($request_method = MKCOL)            {proxy_pass  http://upstream;}
        if ($request_method = COPY)             {proxy_pass  http://upstream;}
        if ($request_method = MOVE)             {proxy_pass  http://upstream;}
        if ($request_method = LOCK)             {proxy_pass  http://upstream;}
        if ($request_method = UNLOCK)           {proxy_pass  http://upstream;}
        if ($request_method = PUT)              {proxy_pass  http://upstream;}
    }

    location /forum/
    {
        return 301 https://site12345678.ru/1/2/;
    }
}

and if you make a location with equals , then everything works, since the first one is equal and is checked by nginx

location =/forum/
{
    return 301 https://site12345678.ru/1/2/;
}

Actually a question why all the same without it does not work?

Answer 1

Rewrite the config in a human way, you can start with this configurator .