Serving mp3 files from Nginx

Evan Miller emmiller+gmane at gmail.com
Sat May 19 11:06:09 MSD 2007


 <nhytro-python at ...> writes:

> 
> I have noticed something very strange with Nginx. I can server normal mp3
files from Apache, and the can be
> played or downloaded normally, the same files do not work on Nginx.
> 

The problem is that your system doesn't support "sendfile", as indicated in the
log. In your nginx.conf, delete this line:

    sendfile on;

And things should be peachy.

Evan


> ## ======= ERROR LOG
> 
> 007/05/18 00:26:10 [crit] 3784#0: *6 sendfile() failed (38: Function not
implemented) while sending
> response to client, client: 81.62.17.209, server: localhost, URL: "/test.mp3",
host: "www.nhytro.de"
> 
> Does anyone have an idea what I have done wrong?
> 
> Thanks
> 
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