Hello, the Problem are "multiple" subs.
When I use your example i get curl -H Host:foo.www.example.com http://localhost/ domain is foo.www.example.com But I need example.com like here https://regex101.com/r/9h3D77/1 Best Regards On 10.11.2017 09:19, Francis Daly wrote: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 11:53:23AM +0100, basti wrote: > > Hi there, > >> In this example from nginx docs domain has "fullname". >> >> server { >> server_name ~^(www\.)?(*?<domain>*.+)$; >> root /sites/*$domain*; >> } > > When I use the config > > server { > server_name ~^(www\.)?(?<domain>.+)$; > return 200 "domain is $domain\n"; > } > > I get the message > > nginx: [emerg] pcre_compile() failed: unrecognized character > after (?< in "^(www\.)?(?<domain>.+)$" at "domain>.+)$" in > /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf > > because my PCRE version does not recognise that syntax. > > The page at http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/server_names.html does say: > > """ > The PCRE library supports named captures using the following syntax: > > ?<name> Perl 5.10 compatible syntax, supported since PCRE-7.0 > ?'name' Perl 5.10 compatible syntax, supported since PCRE-7.0 > ?P<name> Python compatible syntax, supported since PCRE-4.0 > If nginx fails to start and displays the error message: > pcre_compile() failed: unrecognized character after (?< in ... > this means that the PCRE library is old and the syntax “?P<name>” should be > tried instead. > """ > > When I change the main line (by adding an extra P) to be > > server_name ~^(www\.)?(?P<domain>.+)$; > > then it all seems to work for me: > > $ curl -H Host:www.example.com http://localhost/ > domain is example.com > $ curl -H Host:example.com http://localhost/ > domain is example.com > $ curl -H Host:no.example.com http://localhost/ > domain is no.example.com > >> servername: www.example.com -> $domain should be example.com > > It works for me. What output do you get instead of what you want to get? > > f > _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
