nginx rewrite rule php melody

Question

I am using nginx. I want to rewrite urls. My code:

rewrite ^/([^/]*)_([a-zA-Z0-9]{9}).html$ /watch.php?vid=$2 last;

Example of url: http://104.238.130.170/hudson-against-the-grain-video_14a4e06f8.html

But when I save file then restarts nginx server i got error:

[emerg] directive "rewrite" is not terminated by ";" in /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf:46

QUESTION: What is wrong on my rewrite rule?

rewrite ^/([^/]*)_([a-zA-Z0-9]{9}).html$ /watch.php?vid=$2 last;

Answer 1

The curly brackets {9} are most likely giving a problem in your regex. Surround the rule with quotes like below and try it.

rewrite "^/([^/]*)_([a-zA-Z0-9]{9}).html$" /watch.php?vid=$2 last;

Note: for curly braces( { and } ), as they are used both in regexes and for block control, to avoid conflicts, regexes with curly braces are to be enclosed with double quotes (or single quotes).

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