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How to match multiple times in nginx location regex ?

it seems the {x,x} syntax never works!

for example:

location ~ ^/abc/\w{1,3}$ { ... }

nerver work!

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  • try ^/abc/\w\w?\w?$ Commented Sep 10, 2014 at 11:22
  • Raj, I know this works, but it seems a little bit ugly... Commented Sep 10, 2014 at 11:23

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You must quote location which contains { or ; characters.

location ~ "^/abc/\w{1,3}$" { ... }

otherwise nginx parse it as location ~ ^/abc/\w { 1, ... and fails with syntax error.

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