nginx location regex, match multiple times

Question

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!

Answer 1

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.