Nginx config to test regex.

nginx.conf

# Usage:
#
# Start with:
#
# sudo /use/local/sbin/nginx -c /path/to/this/nginx.conf
#
# Tail logs:
#
# $ sudo tail -f /tmp/access.log /tmp/error.log /tmp/match.log
#
# Generate load:
#
# $ cat ./urls.txt | xargs curl -i 
#
# See below for urls.txt example.
#
# Matches should be in /tmp/match.log with a 200 status.
#
# Everything else should be in /tmp/access.log with a 404 status.

worker_processes  1;
http {
    include       /usr/local/etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    log_format  main  '$status $request'; # e.g. "200 GET /foo HTTP/1.1"
    access_log  /tmp/access.log  main;
    error_log  /tmp/error.log;

    server {
        listen       8888;
        server_name  localhost;

        location ~ ^/good[0-9]$ { # << regex here
          access_log /tmp/match.log main;
          return 200;
        }

        location / {
          return 404;
        }
    }
}

urls.txt

http://localhost:8888/good1
http://localhost:8888/good2
http://localhost:8888/good3
http://localhost:8888/bad1
http://localhost:8888/bad2
http://localhost:8888/bad3
http://localhost:8888/good4
http://localhost:8888/bad4
http://localhost:8888/good5
http://localhost:8888/bad5