title: How do I serve static files case-insensitively with nginx?
body: <p>I'm trying to serve static files with nginx, and I've already tried adding <code>~*</code> to the location option, but that doesn't seem to work with what I'm trying to do: serve files with case-insensitivity. Right now, I get a 404 if the case of the URL doesn't match the file's name in the file system.</p>
  
  <p>For example, I have a file <code>/usr/share/nginx/psimages/scripts/ajaxprogress.js</code>, and I can access it by going to the <code>/scripts/ajaxprogress.js</code> URL, but I also need to access it by going to <code>/scripts/AjaxProgress.js</code>, which is currently giving me a 404 error when I try to load it.</p>
  
  <p>Here's my config:</p>
  
  <pre><code>server {
      error_log /var/log/nginx/ngerror.log debug;
      listen 80 default_server;
      listen [::]:80 default_server;
  
      root /usr/share/nginx/psimages;
      index index.html index.htm;
  
      # Make site accessible from http://localhost/
      server_name localhost;
  
      location ~* / {
          # First attempt to serve request as file, then
          # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
          try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
          # Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
          # include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
  
              # Wide-open CORS config for nginx
          if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {
          add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
          #
          # Om nom nom cookies
          #
          add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true';
          add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
          #
          # Custom headers and headers various browsers *should* be OK with but aren't
          #
          add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,X-CustomHeader,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type';
          #
          # Tell client that this pre-flight info is valid for 20 days
          #
          add_header 'Access-Control-Max-Age' 1728000;
          add_header 'Content-Type' 'text/plain charset=UTF-8';
          add_header 'Content-Length' 0;
          return 204;
           }
           if ($request_method = 'POST') {
          add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
          add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true';
          add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
          add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,X-CustomHeader,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type';
           }
           if ($request_method = 'GET') {
          add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
          add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true';
          add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
          add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,X-CustomHeader,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type';
           }
      }
  }
  </code></pre>