You can easily extract only the filename (e.g. myfile.txt
for https://domain.com/directory/myfile.txt
) by capturing it in a regex named group:
location ~ ^/(?P<request_basename>[^/]+)$ { # TODO: Add your code here - you can use $request_basename! }
For a usage example, see my previous post on nginx: Force file download using Content-Disposition for entire directory.