Use URLs with special characters in nginx maps

Green and Blue g

1/9/23, 7:51 PM

I'm trying to setup a redirect system with nginx (somthing like aka.ms, aka.ms/terminal-docs = documentation of Windows Terminal). I created a file with a map that look like this:

map $request_uri $redirect_uri{
        [...]
        /youtube        https://www.youtube.com/channel/[...];
        [...]
}

Then i tried to add a /odysee link in the following way:

/odysee https://odysee.com/$/invite/@[...]:4;

But when reloading nginx it fail

# systemctl reload nginx
Job for nginx.service failed.
See "systemctl status nginx.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

I am thinking it fails because of the $ in Odysee's URL but i can't find a way to tell nginx to ignore the character

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Richard Smith

1/9/23, 8:04 PM

The dollar literal is being interpreted as a variable name. There is a creative solution [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57466554/how-do-i-escape-in-nginx-variables) that might help you.

Tero Kilkanen

1/10/23, 6:51 AM

BTW, `nginx -t` is a good way to check what exactly are the errors.

Michael Hampton

1/10/23, 8:50 PM

Seriously, again, run `nginx -t` and post the output.

Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Use URLs with special characters in nginx maps

TH: ใช้ URL ที่มีอักขระพิเศษในแผนที่ nginx

RO: Utilizați adrese URL cu caractere speciale în hărțile nginx

RU: Используйте URL-адреса со специальными символами в картах nginx

VI: Sử dụng URL có ký tự đặc biệt trong bản đồ nginx

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