Map capture doesn't work?

[António P. P. Almeida]

On 3 Fev 2012 12h37 WET, edho at myconan.net wrote:

> Taken directly from example[1]:
>
> map $uri $new {
> default               http://www.domain.com/home/;
>
> /aa                   http://aa.domain.com/;
> /bb                   http://bb.domain.com/;
> ~^/cc/(?P<suffix>.*)$ http://animebsd.net/$suffix;
> /john                 http://my.domain.com/users/john/;
> }
>
> server {
> server_name   yutsuki.myconan.net;
> rewrite  ^    $new   redirect;
> }

I tripped over this a few days back. It seems that the capture doesn't
work if you had anything surrounding the variable that holds the
captured pattern to the right side of the map.

Right now the only thing that works is doing something like this:

- ~^/cc/(?P<suffix>.*)$ http://animebsd.net/$suffix;
+ ~^/cc/(?P<suffix>.*)$ $suffix; 

Then add another map *just* for the host and do:

return 301 $host_map://$new;

--- appa