Having trouble with the PCRE syntax

[Sven 'Darkman' Michels]

Hi,

i'd write the end more like (/?|$), this would match if there
is a /, or if there is the end - i think.

Regards,
Sven

Am 11.03.2011 16:01, schrieb strike:
> Hi,
> 
> would anybody please tell me what I'm doing wrong here?
> 
> location ~* ^/(forum|forums|board)/? {
>      rewrite ^/([^/]*)/*(.*) http://forum.my_domain.com/$2
> permanent;
> }
> 
> I'd like to make it redirect visitors from
> http://www.my_domain.com/forum (note: there's no trailing slash),
> http://www.my_domain.com/forum/, http://www.my_domain.com/forums (again,
> there's no trailing slash here), http://www.my_domain.com/forums/,
> http://www.my_domain.com/board (...yep) and
> http://www.my_domain.com/board/ to http://forum.my_domain.com/. Neither
> the path (except "forum"/"forums"/"board") nor the query (if there's
> one) should get cut off. It's working so far, but it also redirects
> visitors from ex. http://www.my_domain.com/forumfoobar/, which isn't
> what I want. :-(
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,182278,182278#msg-182278
> 
> 
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