Having trouble with the PCRE syntax

[Francis Daly]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 03:40:08PM +0000, Francis Daly wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:01:03AM -0500, strike wrote:

Hi there,

A minor correction in the explanation:

> > location ~* ^/(forum|forums|board)/? {
> 
> You ask for /, forum, then one-or-no slash.
> 
> > It's working so far, but it also redirects
> > visitors from ex. http://www.my_domain.com/forumfoobar/, which isn't
> > what I want. :-(
> 
> The second "f" in "forumfoobar" is one-or-no slash. (Specifically,
> it is no slash). So it matches.

Strictly, it's more like the region between the m and the f that is the
"no slash", rather than the "f" itself.

But the pattern still matches :-)

	f
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Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org