nginx rewrite error, invalid number of arguments

Asked May 15 '18 at 10:54

Active May 15 '18 at 13:16

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I'm running nginx 1.13.6. The configuration has this directive to serve a virtual host service.company.com/ using service.company.com/svc/:

if ($server_name = service.company.com) {
   rewrite ^(.*)$ /svc/$1 last;
}

The server starts successfully, albeit with an entry in error.log:

[emerg] 60841#0: invalid number of arguments in "rewrite" directive in …

Oddly, the line number in the error is the last line of the configuration file. The error is consistent with a missing semicolon. But, there's a semicolon there. And everything works fine except that the rewrite rule is ignored.

Does this seemingly trivial command have a syntax error?

Is there a better approach to the original problem?

edited May 15 '18 at 13:16

asked May 15 '18 at 10:54

Potatoswatter

You could try `nginx -T` to see exactly which files `nginx` is processing. – Richard Smith May 15 '18 at 12:35
@RichardSmith Nothing interesting there. Also `nginx -t` specifically says `syntax is ok`. – Potatoswatter May 15 '18 at 15:37

nginx rewrite error, invalid number of arguments

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