configuration - nginx rewrite not working?? it simply ignores it

Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow , the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. Visit Stack Exchange

Server Fault is a question and answer site for system and network administrators. It only takes a minute to sign up.

Sign up to join this community

Teams

Q&A for work

Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search.

Learn more about Teams

i have a wierd problem with nginx, it doesn't want to rewrite...

I have this configuration and i need to pass a hash (40 chars) to a php file it works with apache mod_rewrite but with nginx it isn't i even tried to do simple rewrites, it simply doesn't work

server {
.........
        location / {
            rewrite ^aa$ /downloadTORRENTZ.php break;
            root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
            index  index.html index.htm;
            rewrite  "^([A-Z0-9]{40})$" /file.php?ddl=$1 break;
                From @staafl: What OS are you using? I'm sorry for not commenting, but I don't have the rep.
– HopelessN00b
                Aug 24, 2012 at 2:48
request usually start with / so your regexp should look like 
rewrite  ^/([A-Z0-9]{40})$ /file.php?ddl=$1 break;
Is your hash ALLCAPS? Maybe you should use [a-zA-Z0-9] 
40 characters... It looks like sha1 hash. May be you should simplify regexp to [0-9A-F]

Stack Exchange Network