nginx ignoring location with hyphens

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I am having a problem with nginx "location" directive and regular expressions.

I want to have a location match a url that begins with "/user-profile".

The problem is that nginx does not match that, however if I change the config and try with userprofile (i.e. no hyphen) it works like a charm.

I think that there is regexp related problem, but can't get my head around it.

My current config is:

location ^~ /user-profile {
    proxy_pass http://remotesites;
}

And I've also tried with: 

location ^~ /user\-profile {
    proxy_pass http://remotesites;
}

I appreciate any help you can give me.

Thanks!

nginx
3 Answers

try

location ^~ "/user-profile" {
proxy_pass http://remotesites;
}
user_28323230

I think what you are looking for is

location ~ ^/user-profile {
    proxy_pass http://remotesites;
}
user_42447170

One thing to remember if your location is not working as expected in Nginx, as I just spent ages finding out:

location /fred-plus {
   root /var/me
}

/fred will be APPENDED to become ... /var/me/fred-plus

but ...

location /fred-plus {
    alias /var/me
}

/fred-plus will REPLACED to become ... /var/me

Just spent a fair while sorting this out after coming from Apache land.

I've included the hyphen as it was the red herring that was not the problem in my case.

user_8512000
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