How remove two specific characters from param from url NGINX - redirect

Question

i have this url xxxxx.com/xxxx/xx-xx-2/xxxx and want remove the "-2" from second parameter in the url and that it stays that way xxxxx.com/xxxx/xx-xx/xxxx, The "-2" is random. i don't have idea how to do it :( any help would appreciate it.
My apologies for my bad english

Answer 1

You should add below
location ~ /[^/]+/[^/]+-[\d+]/ {
rewrite ^/([^/]+/[^/]+)-[\d+]/(.*) $1/$2 redirect;
}
In a url /part1/part2-number/ The /[^/]+ matches /part1, /[^/]+ matches /part2 and -[\d+]/ matched -number and then your rewrite it to remove the number
Test Results:
$ curl -I localhost/tarun/lalwani-2/abc
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Server: openresty/1.11.2.2
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2017 11:44:23 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 167
Location: http://localhost/tarun/lalwani/abc
Connection: keep-alive
$ curl -I localhost/tarun/lalwani-10/abc
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Server: openresty/1.11.2.2
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2017 11:44:27 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 167
Location: http://localhost/tarun/lalwani/abc
Connection: keep-alive