regex issue

[mpratt]

For some reason, I am unable to take a URI like
example.com/manufacturers/metlox/0?page=13 and change it to
example.com/manufacturers/m

It seems like the curly braces aren't working. I've tried the following
without results:

 

location ~* /manufacturers/ {

        rewrite "^/manufacturers/(.{1})/(.*)$" /manufacturer/directory/$1
redirect;

        }

location ~* /manufacturers/ {

        rewrite "^/manufacturers/([a-z] {1})/(.*)$"
/manufacturer/directory/$1 redirect;

        }

 

location ~* /manufacturers/ {

        rewrite "^/manufacturers/([a-z]?)/(.*)$" /manufacturer/directory/$1
redirect;

        }

 

I am new to regex, so maybe this is something simple. What I want to get is
the first letter of first captured word.  What I can do is pull the entire
word with (.*), but not the first letter only. 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance. 

 

Using nginx 0.8.53 reverse proxy in front of apache

 

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