nginx 'proxy_pass' cannot have URI part in location?

Question

I have a location block as

location @test{
    proxy_pass http://localhost:5000/1;
}

but nginx complains that \"proxy_p

Answer 1

Technically just adding the URI should work, because it's documented here and it says that it should work, so

location @test{
    proxy_pass http://localhost:5000/1/; # with a trailing slash
}

Should have worked fine, but since you said it didn't I suggested the other way around, the trick is that instead of passing /my/uri to localhost:5000/1, we pass /1/my/uri to localhost:5000,

That's what my rewrite did

rewrite ^ /1$1

Meaning rewrite the whole URL, prepend it with /1 then add the remaining, the whole block becomes

location @test{
    rewrite ^ /1$1;
    proxy_pass http://localhost:5000;
}

Note: @Fleshgrinder provided an answer explaining why the first method didn't work.