Nginx pattern matching in location

Question

I am trying to match all paths of particular pattern to some alias but it isn't working.

  location /*/ {
          alias /some/path;
  }

My requirement is that any url, eg http://<domain>/{variable} , should go to the alias and bring up the default page. The urls http://example.com/xyz/hello.html and http://example.com/abc/hello.html should resolve to the same location and refer to same page.

How do I achieve this?

Answer 1

Something like this:

rewrite ^/(.*)/(.*)$ /$2 last;

location / {
  root /home;
}