Nignx rewrite pattern on search query? - .htaccess

Question

Its a very basic thing i need to do, but i cant figure this one out.
i have following rule in my nginx.conf
location ^/search {
#try_files index.php?search=$1 last;
rewrite ^/search/(.*)/ index.php?search=$1;
#rewrite ^/search/([^/]+)/page/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?search=$1&page=$2;
}
location ^/article {
rewrite ^/article/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ /index.php?layout=article&id=$1;
}
location ^/images {
rewrite ^/images/([^/]+)$ /images/$1 break;
rewrite ^/images/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ /images/$1/$2 break;
}
location ^/css {
rewrite ^/css/([^/]+)$ /css/$1 break;
rewrite ^/css/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ /css/$1/$2 break;
}
location ~* ^/(css|img|js|flv|swf|download)/(.+)$ {
root $root_path;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
}
basically all i want to do is
match below query on search to this above.
example.com/search-term1/
or
example.com/search term/
or
example.com/search/search-term1/
or
example.com/search/search-term1/page/1/
above url patterns ?how do i do this ? above rule gives me error 500 Internal server error.
in the Nginx log i get following as
2015/08/05 12:56:39 [error] 11136#0: *2 could not find named location "#rewrite", client: 202.172.107.194, server: example.com, request: "GET /search/search-term1/page/1/ HTTP/1.1", host: "example.com"

Answer 1

i fixed this issue by moving them out of the location block and putting them directly into the server block.