regex rewrite problem

[Edho Arief]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:46 AM, mpratt <nginx-forum at nginx.us> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. I had previously read that section and enclosed
> them in quotes and it didn't work:
> for example:
>
>> location ~* /manufacturers/ {
>> rewrite "^/manufacturers/(.{1})/(.*)$" /manufacturer/directory/$1
> redirect;
>> }
>
> doesn't work. That;'s why I was so stumped. Thought I had done
> everything according to that section...
>

Of course it won't. The regex above will only match url like this:

/manufacturers/a/something

and not:

/manufacturers/asdfgh/something

Because /(.{1})/ will only match (and capture) one character between
two slashes (e.g. /u/, /b/) while /(.).*/ will match (and capture)
first character of word between two slashes (e.g. /unix/, /books/).

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