Regular expressions in server_name: pattern length

[Igor Sysoev]

On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 02:05:21PM +0000, Phillip Oldham wrote:

> Igor Sysoev wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 10:21:11AM +0000, Phillip Oldham wrote:
> >   
> >> Igor Sysoev wrote:
> >>     
> >>> It's possible:
> >>>
> >>> server {
> >>>      server_name ~^([a-z]{2,3})?\d{3,6}\.mysite\.org$;
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> server {
> >>>      server_name ~^(\w+)\.mysite\.org$;
> >>> }
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> Is this with the latest devel, or stable?
> >>     
> >
> > regex as a main server_name supported since 0.6.25.
> > server_name captures can be used since 0.7.40.
> > Named server_name captures can be used since 0.8.25.
> >   
> Sorry, I must be doing something wrong but can't see where:
> 
> server {
>   server_name ~^([a-z]{2,3})?\d{3,6}\.mysite\.org$;
>   ...
> }
> 
> # nginx -t
> [emerg]: directive "server_name" is not terminated by ";" in 

This is caused by "{":

-   server_name  ~^([a-z]{2,3})?\d{3,6}\.mysite\.org$;
+   server_name "~^([a-z]{2,3})?\d{3,6}\.mysite\.org$";


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