How to grab a value from a request

[halfpastjohn]

Would this work?

location ~ ^/users/v2/ {
proxy_pass http://app.domain.com/api/$1/v2;
}

Would $1 resolve as users or does it need to be inside ()?

Posted at Nginx Forum: https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,276652,276664#msg-276664