Best way to get the $request_uri without the starting slash

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 04:36:49AM -0500, WheresWardy wrote:
> Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for.
> 
> The $1 didn't work however, nginx complained about it being an
> unreferenced variable, so I modified it to look like the examples in the
> documentation (maybe you can't reference pattern matches numerically
> like elsewhere in the config?):
> 
> map $request_uri $request_key {
>   default index;
>   ~^/(?P<key>.+)$ $key;
> }

Yes, numeric references are not supported in map.

You can also change default to empty string:

map $request_uri $request_key {
   default "";
   ~^/(?P<key>.+)$ $key;
}


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Igor Sysoev